Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
G. D. Searle
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1952: A contraceptive tablet of phosphorated hesperedin...
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1952
A contraceptive tablet of phosphorated hesperedin was produced by G. D. Searle
's laboratories in Chicago.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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August 1953: Scientist Gregory Pincus, working for G....
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August 1953
Scientist Gregory Pincus
, working for G. D. Searle
, patented a compound very similar to synthetic oestrogen (first made in Syntex
labs nearly two years before) and set about using it, as Syntex
had...