Gregory Pincus

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Biologist who co‑developed the first oral contraceptive pill

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Hannah MaguireRedHanded · ShortHand: The Bizarre History of Birth Control · 31:10 · 13 Feb
…The pill named Enovid was invented by Gregory Pincus and John Rock.…
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ChuckStuff You Should Know · Selects: How The Pill Changed the World · 9:33 · Dec 2024
…But you still couldn't really research, right? Because there were laws on even doing research on birth control. So the people who were doing this, it started out as Margaret Sanger. She hooked up with a doctor named Pincus and Gregory Pincus, who was a biologist, and he was interested in coming up with birth control as well. Um, Mary McCormick, was her firs…
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