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Katharine McCormick (1876-1967)
By: Aliya Buttar
| Published: Nov 08, 2007
Katharine Dexter McCormick, who contributed the majority of funding for the development of the oral contraceptive pill, was born to Josephine and…
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John Charles Rock (1890-1984)
By: Kimberly A. Buettner
| Published: Nov 08, 2007
Born on 24 March 1890 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, to Ann and Frank Rock, John Charles Rock was both a devout Catholic and one of the leading…
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Lennart Nilsson (1922- )
By: Olivia Conley
| Published: Jun 24, 2010
Lennart Nilsson is a world-renowned photojournalist recognized for his exploratory images of the inside of the human body. Throughout his career,…
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Jeffrey Keenan (1961- )
By: Nicole Lopez
| Published: Jun 17, 2010
Jeffrey Keenan is the Director of the Southeastern Center for Fertility and Reproductive Medicine and the main developer behind the National Embryo…
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Lap-Chee Tsui (1950-)
By: Kristina Winikates
| Published: Nov 10, 2011
Lap-Chee Tsui is a geneticist who discovered the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene, and his research team sequenced human chromosome 7. As the location of…
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Nettie Maria Stevens (1861-1912)
By: Kaitlin Smith
| Published: Jun 20, 2010
Multiple theories about what determines sex were tested at the turn of the twentieth century. By experimenting on germ cells, cytologist Nettie Maria…
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Carl Gottfried Hartman (1879-1968)
By: Giavonna A. Goodman
| Published: Nov 01, 2011
Carl Gottfried Hartman researched the reproductive physiology of opossums and rhesus monkeys. He was the first to extensively study the embryology…
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Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903-1967)
By: Aliya Buttar
| Published: Nov 24, 2008
Gregory Goodwin Pincus, one of the original researchers responsible for the development of the first oral contraceptive pill, was born in Woodbine,…
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Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925-2013)
By: Samuel Philbrick
| Published: Jun 20, 2011
Robert Geoffrey Edwards worked with Patrick Christopher Steptoe to develop in-vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques during the 1960s and 1970s in the…
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Min Chueh Chang (1908-1991)
By: Kimberly A. Buettner
| Published: Nov 08, 2007
As one of the researchers involved in the development of the oral contraceptive pill, Min Chueh Chang helped to revolutionize the birth control…
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