Carl Djerassi RIP - Scientist behind the contraceptive pill

[weltweit]

Carl Djerassi, chemist who developed the birth control pill, dies at age 91
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...father-of-birth-control-pill-dies-at-age-91-0

Scientist led the team that in 1951 produced a synthetic molecule that ultimately helped transform sexual practices and women’s lives

Djerrasi died of complications of cancer in his San Francisco home, Stanford University spokesman Dan Stober said. He was 91.

Djerassi, a professor emeritus of chemistry at Stanford, was most famous for leading a research team in Mexico City that in 1951 developed norethindrone, a synthetic molecule that became a key component of the first birth control pill

 

[Mogden]

Outstanding work that he did.







But I can't get out of my head that he be buried in a plastic see through coffin with a foil top.