Carl Djerassi

thumb|Carl Djerassi in 2004 Carl Djerassi (October 29, 1923 – January 30, 2015) was an Austrian-Bulgarian-American biochemist known for his key role in the development of oral contraceptive pills. He also wrote nonfiction, novels, and plays. Quotes In the cover story of its 12 September 1999 issue, the London Sunday Times Magazine featured the Top Thirty persons of the present millennium. ... The list was heavily skewed in favor of science and technology. ... In the final analysis, in science, unlike art, the individual hardly matters. Well, hardly ever. Unless the individual happens to be oneself. The Sunday Times's list ends with one living relic. On the face of it, the appearance of the name Carl Djerassi is patently ridiculous by any criterion but one: as a surrogate for the Pill. This man's pill: reflections on the 50th birthday of the pill Oxford University Press 2003 1–4 https://books.google.com/books?id=6lFxAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 ... I got to writing poetry out of revenge — self-pity and revenge. Writing out of self pity and revenge 2008 Web of Stories https://www.webofstories.com/play/carl.djerassi/17 External links Carl Djerassi Category:1923 births Category:2015 deaths Category:Jews from Austria Category:Academics from the United States Category:Academics from Austria Category:Jews from the United States Category:People from Vienna Category:People from Bulgaria Category:Chemists from the United States Category:Novelists from Austria Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Playwrights from Austria Category:Playwrights from the United States Category:Biochemists Category:Inventors Category:Atheists from the United States Category:Refugees Category:Wolf Prize in Chemistry laureates Category:National Medal of Science laureates Category:Stanford University faculty