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The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse: The Autobiography of Carl Djerassi
Father of the birth control pill, developer of antihistimines, founder of chemical companies, teacher of world-class chemists, best-selling novelist...as The Scientist notes, Few can match Carl Djerassi's juggling act for success and longevity. Here is Djerassi's remarkable autobiography. Blending vivid descriptions of the lucrative world of drug development with controver
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Hardcover
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319 pages
Published
April 30th 1992
by Basic Books (AZ)
(first published April 1992)
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The subtitle of this books is "The Remarkable Autobiography of the Award-Winning Scientist Who Synthesized the Birth Control Pill." Too long to fit in a title line!
So, I didn't read every word of this. When he started with molecular chemistry, or lab-speak, I skipped a few pages till it looked more like he was discussing silk shirts, or art collections. The guy is a fascinating person, however. He was born in the 1930s to an upper-class Jewish family living in in Vienna and Bulgaria and was fort ...more
So, I didn't read every word of this. When he started with molecular chemistry, or lab-speak, I skipped a few pages till it looked more like he was discussing silk shirts, or art collections. The guy is a fascinating person, however. He was born in the 1930s to an upper-class Jewish family living in in Vienna and Bulgaria and was fort ...more
What an interesting account of a highly successful chemist (developer of the Pill) writer, and human being. I enjoyed the later part of the book in which the author acknowledges the futility of population control in the absence of reproductive awareness, education, and birth control. His marriage to the writer Diane Middlebrook was news to me and I am inspired to read some of her biographies next.
Delightful autobiography of the scientist who synthisized the birth control pill and other chemical compounds. Good writer, very intersting life with an enduring impact on the world.
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