Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Gregory Pincus
Standard Name: Pincus, Gregory
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Winter 1950: Birth-control campaigner Margaret Sanger...
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Winter 1950
Birth-control campaigner Margaret Sanger
met with scientist Gregory Pincus
in New York and discussed with him her radical dream of a safe, cheap, reversible method of contraception that would give women control over their bodies...
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...
1954: Dr. Gregory Pincus, a scientist, and Dr....
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1954
Dr. Gregory Pincus
, a scientist, and Dr. John Rock
, a Catholic physician, began the first human trials of the birth-control pill on 50 female volunteers in Massachusetts at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology
10 May 1960: In the USA the FDA approved the use of the...
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10 May 1960
In the USA the FDA
approved the use of the progestin oral contraceptive pill (marketed as Enovid). This had been developed by experimental scientist Gregory Pincus
(later in collaboration with physician John Rock
), whom...
Texts
Pincus, Gregory. The Control of Fertility. The Academic Press, 1965.