Books
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The politics of contraception | Carl Djerassi | At age twenty-eight, Carl Djerassi led the team at Syntex in Mexico that synthesized the first oral contraceptive. An internationally honored chemist, he has worked for decades as a scientist carryin… | OL10438300W |
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In Retrospect | Carl Djerassi | These are the reflections of a nonagenarian polymath describing the shift from a fifty-year-long career as a world-famous chemist to a subsequent twenty-five-year immersion in “science-in-fiction” an… | OL17076838W |