Summary:
Provides biographical detail on the life of inventor Gregory Goodwin Pincus. Describes how Pincus helped change the health care field with innovations in birth control, fertilization and family planning.
There are so many inventions in health care history that has made people famous. One of those inventors is Gregory Goodwin Pincus. He was born on April 9, 1903, in Woodbine, New Jersey. He went to Cornell University and earned a bachelor's degree in agriculture in 1924. Soon after he went to Harvard University where he was an instructor in zoology while earning his master's and doctorate degrees. In the years 1927 to 1930 he went to Cambridge University to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute conducting research. He was an instructor in general physiology at Harvard in 1930 and an assistant professor a year later. By age 35 in 1938, he was an international authority on the sex of mammals and sex hormones and over 70 of his research papers had been published. (www.nytimes.com) Dr. Pincus not.....
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