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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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Landrum Brewer Shettles (1909-2003)
By: Stephen C. Ruffenach
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
Landrum Brewer Shettles is remembered as an important contributor to early in vitro fertilization research in the United States as well as a prolific…
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Ricardo Hector Asch (1947- )
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Ricardo Hector Asch was born 26 October 1947 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a lawyer and French professor, Bertha, and a doctor and professor of…
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Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren (1927-2007)
By: Aroob Khokhar
| Published: Jun 23, 2010
Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren was a developmental biologist known for her work with embryology in the twentieth century. McLaren was the first…
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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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José Pedro Balmaceda (1948- )
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Jun 15, 2010
José Pedro Balmaceda was born 22 August 1948 in Santiago, Chile. His mother Juanita owned a women's boutique in the city and his father José was a…
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Georgeanna Seegar Jones (1912-2005)
By: Stephen C. Ruffenach
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
Georgeanna Seegar Jones was a reproductive endocrinologist who created one of America' s most successful infertility clinics in West Virginia and…
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Patrick Christopher Steptoe (1913-1988)
By: Andrew Danielson
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Patrick Christopher Steptoe was a British gynecologist responsible for major advances in gynecology and reproductive technology. Throughout his…
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Wilhelm August Oscar Hertwig (1849-1922)
By: Benjamin Garcia, Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 01, 2007
Wilhelm August Oscar Hertwig contributed to embryology through his studies of cells in development and his discovery that only one spermatozoon is…
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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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