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Inventor

Rosenkranz George

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1956

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Years active

1956

Total patents

1

Most recent

1956

Frequent collaborator

Djerassi Carl

Domains

biotechpharmaceutical

Activity by decade

1950s
1

Patents

1

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1 patents, in 1956

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US 2744122·1956·Syntex SA

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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