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Born December 12, 1889 • Baltimore • Maryland
Died September 28, 1981 (aged 91) • Huntsville • Alabama
Subjects Of Study hormone • human reproductive system • progesterone • contraception • oral contraceptive
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Gabriel Fallopius
Italian physician
Percy Julian
Percy Julian
American chemist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
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Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
Wilhelm His, c. 1900
Wilhelm His
Swiss-born German anatomist and embryologist
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Martin H. Rathke
German anatomist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Svetlana Mojsov
Svetlana Mojsov
Yugoslavian-born Macedonian American chemist
Florence Sabin, c. 1915.
Florence Rena Sabin
American anatomist
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Mary Steichen Calderone
American physician
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Cornelia Maria Clapp
American zoologist
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Frank Rattray Lillie
American zoologist
Andrew V. Schally
Andrew V. Schally
American endocrinologist
Charles B. Huggins at work in a laboratory at the University of Chicago, c. 1965.
Charles B. Huggins
American surgeon and medical researcher
Roger Guillemin
Roger Guillemin
American physiologist
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson
American biologist
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Geoffrey Bourne
American anatomist
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Charles Knowlton
American physician
William Brooks
William Keith Brooks
American zoologist