Carl Djerassi

American chemistry professor, inventor, author, playwright (1923-2015) · Austria · Academics · Died at 91

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Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Wood Middlebrook. He is best known for his contribution to the development of oral contraceptive pills, nicknamed the "father of the pill".

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2015Died30 January 20152011Edinburgh MedalAward2004American Institute of Chemists Gold MedalAward2001GDCh Prize For Journalism And LiteratureAward2000Othmer Gold MedalAward1998William Procter Prize for Scientific AchievementAward1995Prince Mahidol AwardAward1992Nevada MedalAward1991National Medal of Technology and InnovationAward1978Wolf Prize in ChemistryAward1975Perkin MedalAward1973ACS Award for Creative InventionAwardChemical Pioneer AwardAward1963Centenary PrizeAward1958ACS Award in Pure ChemistryAward1923Born29 October 1923

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Patent of the first orally highly active progestin, which led to the development of the oral contraceptive, elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame

Awards

Edinburgh Medal2011

Foreign Member of the Royal Society2010

American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal2004

Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany2003

GDCh Prize For Journalism And Literature2001

Othmer Gold Medal2000

Inhoffen-Medaille1999

William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement1998

Willard Gibbs Award1997

Prince Mahidol Award1995

Priestley Medal1992

Nevada Medal1992

National Medal of Technology and Innovation1991

NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science1990

Wolf Prize in Chemistry1978

National Inventors Hall of Fame1978

Perkin Medal1975

National Medal of Science1973

Chemical Pioneer Award1973

ACS Award for Creative Invention1973

Scheele Award1972

Centenary Prize1963

Ernest Guenther Award1960

ACS Award in Pure Chemistry1958

Austrian Decoration for Science and Art

Great Silver Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria

Honorary Doctor of the University of Vienna

Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Innsbruck

Honorary doctor of the Heidelberg University

Honorary doctor of the Technical University of Graz

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Child Dale Djerassi

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Derek BartonBoth received Ernest Guenther Award

William Standish KnowlesBoth received ACS Award for Creative Invention

Dudley R. HerschbachBoth received ACS Award in Pure Chemistry

Tracy HallBoth received ACS Award for Creative Invention

Kyriakos Costa NicolaouBoth received Inhoffen-Medaille

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