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Carl Djerassi

Carl Djerassi is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Stanford and recipient of the National Medal of Science for the first synthesis of an oral contraceptive. His latest book, In Retrospect: From the Pill to the Pen, will be published in November.
 (September 2014)

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