Vienna born U.S. chemist, novelist and playwright Carl Djerassi, known for the development of the first oral contraceptive pill, talks during a news conference in Vienna November 11, 2008.

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Dr. Carl Djerassi, the scientist who has been called one of the many fathers of the birth control pill, died Friday. He was 91. Djerassi, who had been ill from complications due to bone and liver ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Carl Djerassi, the chemist widely considered the father of the birth control pill, has died. Djerrasi died of complications of cancer Friday in his San Francisco home, Stanford ...

This is a guest editorial by Roald Hoffmann of Cornell University, Jeffrey I. Seeman of the University of Richmond, Bassam Z. Shakhashiri of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Richard N. Zare of ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carl Djerassi, the chemist widely considered the father of the birth control pill, has died. Djerrasi died of complications of cancer Friday in his San Francisco home, Stanford ...

[Kang Seok-ki's Science Cafe 255] Science is long, life is short For the past three years, in my final Science Cafe column of the year, I have looked back on the lives and achievements of scientists ...

Editor's Note: In the previous issue of The Scientist (12[20]:7, 14, Oct. 12, 1998), we published the first part of an excerpt from NO by Carl Djerassi. We met the chief protagonist of the book, an ...

Carl Djerassi, the organic chemist and writer best known for creating the hormone that formed the basis of the first oral contraceptive, passed away on Friday at age 91. Although his most enduring ...

(Reuters) - Carl Djerassi, an Austrian-born chemist who helped to develop the birth control pill before becoming a playwright and novelist, died in San Francisco on Friday at the age of 91, his family ...

Carl Djerassi, an Austrian-born chemist who helped to develop the birth control pill before becoming a playwright and novelist, died in San Francisco on Friday at the age of 91, his family said.