Inventor

Djerassi Carl

Patents indexed

Year range

1956

Associated with

Years active

1956

Total patents

Most recent

1956

Frequent collaborator

Miramontes Luis

Domains

biotechpharmaceutical

Activity by decade

1950s

Patents

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1956

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The Chemical Discovery Behind the First Oral Contraceptive Pill

A 1952 patent for a synthetic hormone that became the active ingredient in the first effective oral contraceptive pill.

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