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Carl Djerassi
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<h2 id="early-life">Early life</h2> <p>Carl Djerassi was born in <a href="/facts/Vienna/NSpIURsA">Vienna</a>, Austria, but spent the first years of his infancy in <a href="/facts/Sofia%2c_Bulgaria/KPjJt9Rf">Sofia, Bulgaria</a>, the home of his father, Samuel Djerassi, a dermatologist and specialist in sexually transmitted diseases.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> His mother was Alice Friedmann, a Viennese dentist and physician. Both parents were <a href="/facts/History_of_the_Jews_in_Europe/QBgDX2WS">Jewish</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p><p>Following his parents' divorce, Djerassi and his mother moved to Vienna. Until the age of 14, he attended the same <i>realgymnasium</i> that <a href="/facts/Sigmund_Freud/KKIYbom9">Sigmund Freud</a> had attended many years earlier;<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> spending summers in Bulgaria with his father.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p><p>Austria refused him citizenship and after the <a href="/facts/Anschluss/h7gJQKcq">Anschluss</a>, his father briefly remarried his mother in 1938 to allow Carl and his mother to escape the <a href="/facts/Nazi/JjsMI4lE">Nazi</a> regime and flee to Sofia, Bulgaria, where he lived with his father for a year.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> <a href="/facts/The_Holocaust_in_Bulgaria/SbnIKQ1Q">Bulgaria</a>, although not immune to antisemitism, proved a safe haven, as the country managed to save its entire 48,000-strong Jewish population from deportation to Nazi concentration camps. During his time in Sofia, Djerassi attended the <a href="/facts/American_College_of_Sofia/1lsks6wD">American College of Sofia</a> where he became fluent in English.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p><p>In December 1939, Djerassi arrived with his mother in the United States, nearly penniless. Djerassi's mother worked in a group practice in upstate New York.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> In 1949, his father emigrated to the United States,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> practiced in <a href="/facts/Pennsylvania/HGqC5bBm">Pennsylvania</a> and <a href="/facts/West_Virginia/USP8LtCq">West Virginia</a>, and eventually retired near his son in <a href="/facts/San_Francisco/cb9l7hbC">San Francisco</a>, <a href="/facts/California/zLW2vdQJ">California</a>. </p> <h2 id="education">Education</h2> <p>Djerassi started his college career at Newark Junior College after moving to the United States with his mother when he was 16. He previously had attended the <a href="/facts/American_College_of_Sofia/1lsks6wD">American College of Sofia</a>, a high school in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he became fluent in English. Because of the name of his high school, he was misunderstood and enrolled into Newark Junior College before graduating high school. After a year at Newark Junior College, Djerassi wrote a letter to First Lady <a href="/facts/Eleanor_Roosevelt/CoA36V6u">Eleanor Roosevelt</a> asking for help with a room and board and tuition scholarship to a four-year college. He received a response from the <a href="/facts/Institute_of_International_Education/kc4E96AA">Institute of International Education</a> with a full scholarship to <a href="/facts/Tarkio_College/4luNSwSg">Tarkio College</a> where he briefly attended, and then studied chemistry at <a href="/facts/Kenyon_College/Xu04RE1m">Kenyon College</a>, where he graduated <i><a href="/facts/Latin_honors/BqMYAlgN">summa cum laude</a></i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> After one year at <a href="/facts/Novartis/jDregKez">CIBA</a>, he moved to the <a href="/facts/University_of_Wisconsin%25E2%2580%2593Madison/Rfj54YvS">University of Wisconsin–Madison</a> where he earned his PhD in organic chemistry in 1945.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> His thesis work examined the transformation of the male sex hormone <a href="/facts/Testosterone/uUumdhAz">testosterone</a> into the female sex hormone <a href="/facts/Estradiol/eCg3UCgX">estradiol</a>, through a sequence of chemical reactions.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="career">Career</h2> <p>In 1942/43, Djerassi worked for <a href="/facts/Chemical_Industry_Basel/jDregKez">CIBA</a> in <a href="/facts/New_Jersey/pI5k19S7">New Jersey</a>, developing <a href="/facts/Pyribenzamine/UJKjNabv">Pyribenzamine</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> (tripelennamine), his first patent and one of the first commercial <a href="/facts/Antihistamines/HuMC25lt">antihistamines</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> </p><p>In 1949 Djerassi became associate director of research at <a href="/facts/Syntex/HCK66DP1">Syntex</a> in <a href="/facts/Mexico_City/gEnGxDEd">Mexico City</a> and remained there through 1951.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> He has said that one factor influencing him to choose Syntex was that they had a <a href="/facts/DU_spectrophotometer/8gyLpUqv">DU spectrophotometer</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> He worked on a new synthesis of <a href="/facts/Cortisone/z5GUmvNG">cortisone</a> based on <a href="/facts/Diosgenin/Q5mTgo0f">diosgenin</a>, a <a href="/facts/Steroid/4AhMbgXt">steroid</a> <a href="/facts/Sapogenin/UyY4Rojl">sapogenin</a> derived from a Mexican wild yam.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a> His team later synthesized <a href="/facts/Norethisterone/G1DJxlre">norethisterone</a> (norethindrone),<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a> the first highly active <a href="/facts/Progestin/8xMJYV3A">progestin</a> analogue that was effective when taken by mouth. This became part of one of the first successful combined oral contraceptive pills, known colloquially as the birth-control pill, or simply, <a href="/facts/The_Pill/Wudd4dH7">the Pill</a>. From 1952 to 1959 he was professor of chemistry at <a href="/facts/Wayne_State_University/DI8huwcr">Wayne State University</a> in Detroit.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a> </p><p>Djerassi participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican <a href="/facts/Luis_E._Miramontes/4Pp2wm89">Luis E. Miramontes</a> and Hungarian-Mexican <a href="/facts/George_Rosenkranz/HcHgt7AT">George Rosenkranz</a>, of the <a href="/facts/Progestin/8xMJYV3A">progestin</a> <a href="/facts/Norethisterone/G1DJxlre">norethisterone</a>—which, unlike <a href="/facts/Progesterone/WEj2TGRm">progesterone</a>, remained effective when taken orally and was far stronger than the naturally occurring <a href="/facts/Hormone/WFnBnINJ">hormone</a>. His preparation was first administered as an oral contraceptive to animals by <a href="/facts/Gregory_Goodwin_Pincus/q1bKGWJv">Gregory Goodwin Pincus</a> and <a href="/facts/Min_Chueh_Chang/hItWBlBf">Min Chueh Chang</a> and to women by <a href="/facts/John_Rock_(American_scientist)/rbP8IlBX">John Rock</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a> </p><p>In 1957, he became vice president of research at Syntex in Mexico City while on leave of absence from Wayne State. In 1960 Djerassi became a professor of chemistry at <a href="/facts/Stanford_University/JEQeF9z2">Stanford University</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a> a position he held until 2002 <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a> but only part-time as he never left industry.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a> From 1968 until 1972 he also served as president of Syntex Research at <a href="/facts/Palo_Alto/KJpC7kd8">Palo Alto</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</sup></a> </p><p>The Syntex connection brought wealth to Djerassi. He bought a large tract of land in <a href="/facts/San_Mateo_County%2c_California/1DgAauME">San Mateo County, California</a>, and started a cattle ranch called SMIP. (Initially an acronym for "Syntex Made It Possible", other variants have been suggested since.) He also assembled a large art collection. His collection of works by <a href="/facts/Paul_Klee/KPwSDnzn">Paul Klee</a> was considered to be one of the most significant to be privately held.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32"><sup>32</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33"><sup>33</sup></a> He arranged for his Klee collections to be donated to the <a href="/facts/Albertina/SwYHAs19">Albertina</a> in Vienna and the <a href="/facts/San_Francisco_Museum_of_Modern_Art/pcGjD5EJ">San Francisco Museum of Modern Art</a>, effective on his death.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34"><sup>34</sup></a> </p><p>Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Djerassi continued to do significant scientific work, as a professor in the department of chemistry at <a href="/facts/Stanford_University/JEQeF9z2">Stanford University</a>, and as an entrepreneur. He pioneered novel physical research techniques for <a href="/facts/Mass_spectrometry/RH5WBHJ2">mass spectrometry</a> and <a href="/facts/Optical_rotatory_dispersion/z06V2fB0">optical rotatory dispersion</a> and applied them to the areas of <a href="/facts/Organic_chemistry/djxhxaNg">organic chemistry</a> and the life sciences.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35"><sup>35</sup></a> Focusing on the steroid hormones and alkaloids, he elucidated the structure of steroids, an area in which he published over 1,200 papers.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36"><sup>36</sup></a> His scientific interests were wide-ranging, and his technological achievements include work in instrumentation, pharmaceuticals, insect control, the application of artificial intelligence in biomedical research, and the biology and chemistry of marine organisms.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37"><sup>37</sup></a> </p><p>In 1968, he started a new company, Zoecon,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:38" href="#fn:38"><sup>38</sup></a> which focused on environmentally soft methods of <a href="/facts/Pest_control/0ADEUBaF">pest control</a>, using modified insect growth hormones to stop insects from metamorphosing from the larval stage to the <a href="/facts/Pupa/0u7NE8Cq">pupal</a> and adult stages.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:39" href="#fn:39"><sup>39</sup></a> Zoecon was eventually acquired by <a href="/facts/Occidental_Petroleum/VsK08GNT">Occidental Petroleum</a>, which later sold it to <a href="/facts/Sandoz/jDregKez">Sandoz</a>, now <a href="/facts/Novartis/jDregKez">Novartis</a>. Part of Zoecon survives in <a href="/facts/Dallas/f3c7MQn0">Dallas</a>, Texas, making products to control <a href="/facts/Flea/hFLUFK24">fleas</a> and other pests. </p><p>In 1965 at Stanford University, nobel laureate <a href="/facts/Joshua_Lederberg/do1uFsb1">Joshua Lederberg</a>, computer scientist <a href="/facts/Edward_Feigenbaum/zqMzJt6C">Edward Feigenbaum</a>, and Djerassi devised the computer program <a href="/facts/Dendral/fds2rj6N">DENDRAL</a> (dendritic algorithm) for the elucidation of the molecular structure of unknown organic compounds taken from known groups of such compounds, such as the alkaloids and the steroids.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:40" href="#fn:40"><sup>40</sup></a> This was a prototype for <a href="/facts/Expert_system/CUCzSEaX">expert systems</a> and one of the first uses of <a href="/facts/Artificial_intelligence/lJGauQwX">artificial intelligence</a> in biomedical research.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:41" href="#fn:41"><sup>41</sup></a> </p><p>Djerassi was a member of the Board of Sponsors of the <i><a href="/facts/Bulletin_of_the_Atomic_Scientists/TRCfTtsy">Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:42" href="#fn:42"><sup>42</sup></a> and was chairman of the <a href="/facts/Pharmanex/klKq2nY8">Pharmanex</a> Scientific Advisory Board.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:43" href="#fn:43"><sup>43</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2> <p>Djerassi published widely as a novelist, playwright and scientist.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:44" href="#fn:44"><sup>44</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:45" href="#fn:45"><sup>45</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:46" href="#fn:46"><sup>46</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:47" href="#fn:47"><sup>47</sup></a> In 1985, Djerassi said "I feel like I'd like to lead one more life. I'd like to leave a cultural imprint on society rather than just a technological benefit."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:48" href="#fn:48"><sup>48</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:49" href="#fn:49"><sup>49</sup></a> He went on to write several novels in the "science-in-fiction" genre, including <i>Cantor's Dilemma</i>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:50" href="#fn:50"><sup>50</sup></a> in which he explored the ethics of modern scientific research through his protagonist, Dr. Cantor. He also wrote four autobiographies, the most recent of which, <i>In Retrospect</i> appeared in 2014.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:51" href="#fn:51"><sup>51</sup></a> He wrote a number of plays which have been performed and extensively translated.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:52" href="#fn:52"><sup>52</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:53" href="#fn:53"><sup>53</sup></a> His book <i>Chemistry in Theatre: Insufficiency, Phallacy or Both</i> discusses the potential pedagogic value of using dialogic style and the plot structure of plays with special focus on chemistry.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:54" href="#fn:54"><sup>54</sup></a> </p> <h3>Science-in-fiction</h3> <p>Djerassi wrote five novels, four of which he described as "science-in-fiction",<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:55" href="#fn:55"><sup>55</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:56" href="#fn:56"><sup>56</sup></a> fiction that portrays the lives of real scientists, with all their accomplishments, conflicts, and aspirations. The genre is also referred to as <a href="/facts/Lab_lit/nTDja0xx">Lab lit</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:57" href="#fn:57"><sup>57</sup></a> </p><p>In his first two novels, <i>Cantor's Dilemma</i> and <i>Bourbaki Gambit</i>, he shows how scientists work and think. In <i>Cantor's Dilemma</i>, there is the suspicion of scientific fraud; in <i>Bourbaki Gambit</i> the question of personal achievement stands in the center.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:58" href="#fn:58"><sup>58</sup></a> In the third, <i>Menachem's Seed</i>, <a href="/facts/Intracytoplasmic_sperm_injection/ssdoVvJ2">ICSI</a> and the <a href="/facts/Pugwash_Conferences_on_Science_and_World_Affairs/JSFGCI1W">Pugwash</a> organization are the main themes.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:59" href="#fn:59"><sup>59</sup></a> In the last, <i>NO</i>, he shows how young scientists develop an idea as far as founding a company to market a product<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:60" href="#fn:60"><sup>60</sup></a> – something Djerassi himself did in the field of insecticides. </p><p>The topic of the fifth novel, <i>Marx Deceased</i>, is the role of a writer's earlier bestsellers for the assessment of a new work – in contrast to the assessment of an anonymous work or one of a formerly unknown author.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:61" href="#fn:61"><sup>61</sup></a> He also plays with this topic in <i>Bourbaki Gambit</i>. </p> <h3>Science-in-theatre</h3> <p>After his success with prose literature in the Science-in-Fiction genre, Djerassi started to write plays.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:62" href="#fn:62"><sup>62</sup></a> Theatre, even more so than prose, seemed to fulfill his desire to work in a more “dialogical” environment than the monological natural sciences had allowed him to do.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:63" href="#fn:63"><sup>63</sup></a> According to British director Andy Jordan, who has produced all of his plays in England, Djerassi's dramatic works are "not wholly or straightforwardly naturalistic or realistic […but] avowedly text-driven, where ideas, themes, words and language were majorly important, a fact I had always to be conscious of as the director.2<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:64" href="#fn:64"><sup>64</sup></a> </p><p>Djerassi's first play, <i>An Immaculate Misconception</i> (1998), dealing with the in vitro fertilization procedure ICSI,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:65" href="#fn:65"><sup>65</sup></a> was followed by two plays about priority struggles in the history of science, <i>Oxygen</i> (co-authored with <a href="/facts/Roald_Hoffmann/DHMcXIff">Roald Hoffmann</a>, 1999)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:66" href="#fn:66"><sup>66</sup></a> and <i>Calculus</i> (2002),<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:67" href="#fn:67"><sup>67</sup></a> and a drama at the intersection of chemistry and art history, <i>Phallacy</i> (2004).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:68" href="#fn:68"><sup>68</sup></a> <i>Ego</i> (2003, also produced under the title <i>Three on a Couch</i>),<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:69" href="#fn:69"><sup>69</sup></a> together with the docudrama <i>Four Jews on Parnassus</i> (2006, publ. 2008)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:70" href="#fn:70"><sup>70</sup></a> and <i>Foreplay</i> (2010),<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:71" href="#fn:71"><sup>71</sup></a> are the only three dramatic pieces that do not deal with science-in-literature but rather carry the notion of intellectual competitiveness into literature, philosophy and the humanities. <i>Taboos</i> (2006), a complex play between reproductive, gender and political issues, returns to Djerassi's central concerns as a scientist;<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:72" href="#fn:72"><sup>72</sup></a> his 2012 play <i>Insufficiency</i> is a bitter satire of both the scientific community and academic environments.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:73" href="#fn:73"><sup>73</sup></a> <i>ICSI, sex in the age of mechanical reproduction</i> (2002), was taken to theaters and also to classrooms as a pedagogic wordplay, in many countries, including Spain and Argentina (by collaboration with Dr Àgata Baizán and Alberto Diaz) where it opened the VIII Latinoamerican and Caribbean Biotechnology meeting <a href="/facts/Red_Biotechnology/8eFnI6FB">REDBIO</a>-Argentina 2013 and featured in universities and theaters.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:74" href="#fn:74"><sup>74</sup></a> </p><p>As in his novels, Djerassi's plays incorporate the life and achievements of (sometimes famous) scientists as well as new scientific technologies. The science in his plays is always scientifically plausible although the dramatic personae and locations are fictitious.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:75" href="#fn:75"><sup>75</sup></a> By placing scientists and research into dramatic worlds, he raises critical questions about the sciences as cultural systems and looks into internal conflicts and contradictions in science and between scientists.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:76" href="#fn:76"><sup>76</sup></a> The constant competition between them, the need for priority in new scientific discoveries even if the required speed necessitates risky and immoral means, as well as the problematic consequences of new discoveries are important topics of the plays. </p><p>Connected with many of these questions is the role of women in the sciences (including researchers’ wives and female friends). Djerassi's plays recognize the special contributions women make as scientists and to science, both directly and indirectly. His female characters are usually depicted as strong and independent, proving a strong impact of feminist thinking on his work.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:77" href="#fn:77"><sup>77</sup></a> </p><p>Djerassi's plays have found their way into theaters around the globe and have been translated into many European and Asian languages.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:78" href="#fn:78"><sup>78</sup></a> Djerassi repeatedly revised his plays and some of them have different versions and multiple endings<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:79" href="#fn:79"><sup>79</sup></a> (especially <i>An Immaculate Misconception</i>: the nationalities of the main characters vary, also the endings). Where possible, Djerassi also cooperated with directors in the production of dramatic performances.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:80" href="#fn:80"><sup>80</sup></a> All of his plays have been published in book form, many of them in a number of languages. Some of them can be downloaded from his website. </p> <h3>Poetry</h3> <p>Djerassi wrote numerous poems that were published in journals or anthologies. Some of the poems reflected his life as a chemist (e.g. <i>Why are chemists not poets</i> or <i>The clock runs backwards</i>), others his personal life (e.g. <i>A Diary of Pique</i>).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:81" href="#fn:81"><sup>81</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:82" href="#fn:82"><sup>82</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:83" href="#fn:83"><sup>83</sup></a> </p> <h3>Non-fiction</h3> <ul><li><i>Optical Rotatory Dispersion</i>, McGraw-Hill & Company, 1960.</li> <li><i>The Politics of Contraception</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:84" href="#fn:84"><sup>84</sup></a></li> <li><i>Steroids Made it Possible</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:85" href="#fn:85"><sup>85</sup></a></li> <li><i>The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:86" href="#fn:86"><sup>86</sup></a></li> <li><i>From the Lab into The World: A Pill for People, Pets, and Bugs</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:87" href="#fn:87"><sup>87</sup></a></li> <li><i>Paul Klee: Masterpieces of the Djerassi Collection</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:88" href="#fn:88"><sup>88</sup></a></li> <li><i>Dalla pillola alla penna</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:89" href="#fn:89"><sup>89</sup></a></li> <li><i>This Man's Pill: Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:90" href="#fn:90"><sup>90</sup></a></li> <li><i>In Retrospect : From the Pill to the Pen</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:91" href="#fn:91"><sup>91</sup></a></li></ul> <h3>Fiction</h3> <ul><li><i>Cantor's Dilemma</i>, 1989<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:92" href="#fn:92"><sup>92</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:93" href="#fn:93"><sup>93</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:94" href="#fn:94"><sup>94</sup></a></li> <li><i>The Bourbaki Gambit</i>, 1994<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:95" href="#fn:95"><sup>95</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:96" href="#fn:96"><sup>96</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:97" href="#fn:97"><sup>97</sup></a></li> <li><i>The Futurist and Other Stories</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:98" href="#fn:98"><sup>98</sup></a></li> <li><i>How I Beat Coca-Cola and Other Tales of One-Upmanship</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:99" href="#fn:99"><sup>99</sup></a></li> <li><i>Marx, Deceased. A Novel</i>, 1996<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:100" href="#fn:100"><sup>100</sup></a></li> <li><i>Menachem's Seed. A Novel</i>, 1997<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:101" href="#fn:101"><sup>101</sup></a></li> <li><i>NO. A Novel</i>, 1998<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:102" href="#fn:102"><sup>102</sup></a></li></ul> <h3>Drama</h3> <ul><li><i>Chemistry in Theatre: Insufficiency, Phallacy or Both</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:103" href="#fn:103"><sup>103</sup></a></li> <li><i>Foreplay: Hannah Arendt, the Two Adornos, and Walter Benjamin</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:104" href="#fn:104"><sup>104</sup></a></li> <li><i>Four Jews on <a href="/facts/Parnassus/rmAEuMLo">Parnassus</a></i></li> <li><i>An Immaculate Misconception: Sex in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:105" href="#fn:105"><sup>105</sup></a> <ul><li>L.A. Theatre Works<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:106" href="#fn:106"><sup>106</sup></a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/Oxygen_(play)/E3Iq9w8M"><i>Oxygen</i></a> (with <a href="/facts/Roald_Hoffmann/DHMcXIff">Roald Hoffmann</a>, coauthor)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:107" href="#fn:107"><sup>107</sup></a></li> <li><i>Newton's Darkness: Two Dramatic Views</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:108" href="#fn:108"><sup>108</sup></a></li> <li><i>Sex in an Age of Technological Reproduction: <a href="/facts/Intracytoplasmic_sperm_injection/ssdoVvJ2">ICSI</a> and TABOOS</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:109" href="#fn:109"><sup>109</sup></a> translated to Spanish and brought to scene by Dr. Àgata Baizán<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:110" href="#fn:110"><sup>110</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="awards-and-honors">Awards and honors</h2> <p>Djerassi won numerous awards during his career including: </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Ernest_Guenther_Award/vyaVTDNm">Ernest Guenther Award</a> in Chemistry and Natural Products by the <a href="/facts/American_Chemical_Society/Alf3uhaF">American Chemical Society</a> (1960)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:111" href="#fn:111"><sup>111</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Scheele_Award/H4E0AG8Q">Scheele Award</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/facts/National_Medal_of_Science/2N3FDKNS">National Medal of Science</a> (President of the United States of America, 1973) for his work on the contraceptive pill<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:112" href="#fn:112"><sup>112</sup></a> (The award was somewhat ironic in that his name at the time was on the infamous "<a href="/facts/Master_list_of_Nixon_political_opponents/BRYcjzkY">Nixon's enemies list</a>", which was compiled by <a href="/facts/Charles_Colson/RWxAuKcR">Charles Colson</a> and <a href="/facts/Richard_Nixon/HS8uXAoC">Richard Nixon</a>. He learned this from an article in the <i><a href="/facts/San_Francisco_Examiner/aKnCh6bx">San Francisco Examiner</a></i>, several months later.)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Perkin_Medal/TkHgB2hr">Perkin Medal</a> (1975)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:113" href="#fn:113"><sup>113</sup></a></li> <li>Inducted into the <a href="/facts/National_Inventors_Hall_of_Fame/YIULqGDT">National Inventors Hall of Fame</a> (1978)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:114" href="#fn:114"><sup>114</sup></a></li> <li>First recipient of the <a href="/facts/Wolf_Prize/PCztKgn8">Wolf Prize</a>, 1978<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:115" href="#fn:115"><sup>115</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/National_Medal_of_Technology/yh1hThv4">National Medal of Technology</a> (President of the United States of America, 1991) for "his broad technological contributions to solving environmental problems; and for his initiatives in developing novel, practical approaches to insect control products that are biodegradable and harmless"</li> <li>Golden Plate Award of the <a href="/facts/Academy_of_Achievement/JLFsXAjM">American Academy of Achievement</a> (1980)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:116" href="#fn:116"><sup>116</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Priestley_Medal/TFtIqexV">Priestley Medal</a> (<a href="/facts/American_Chemical_Society/Alf3uhaF">American Chemical Society</a>, 1992)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:117" href="#fn:117"><sup>117</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Willard_Gibbs_Award/rDctWH5u">Willard Gibbs Award</a> (Chicago Section of the <a href="/facts/American_Chemical_Society/Alf3uhaF">American Chemical Society</a>., 1997)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Austrian_Cross_of_Honour_for_Science_and_Art%2c_1st_class/h8Mh0k6k">Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class</a> (1999)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:118" href="#fn:118"><sup>118</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Othmer_Gold_Medal/hpG4A0Br">Othmer Gold Medal</a> (2000)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:119" href="#fn:119"><sup>119</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:120" href="#fn:120"><sup>120</sup></a></li> <li>Prize of the <a href="/facts/German_Chemical_Society/Jn2DuBo6">German Chemical Society</a> for Writers (2001)</li> <li>Grand Gold Medal for services to the province of Lower Austria (2002)</li> <li>Gold Medal of the capital Vienna (2002)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany/k61E5k2R">Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany</a> (2003)</li> <li>Erasmus Medal of the <a href="/facts/Academia_Europaea/yxtePdEl">Academia Europaea</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/facts/American_Institute_of_Chemists_Gold_Medal/Pv2VtzVl">American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal</a> (2004)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:121" href="#fn:121"><sup>121</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Lichtenberg_Medal/XuHgz3uA">Lichtenberg Medal</a> of the <a href="/facts/G%25C3%25B6ttingen_Academy_of_Sciences/XohY9ruH">Göttingen Academy of Sciences</a> (2005)</li> <li>Premio letterario Serono in Rome (2005)</li> <li>An Austrian postage stamp with Djerassi's portrait, issued to mark his 80th birthday (2005)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:122" href="#fn:122"><sup>122</sup></a> The Austrian government also sent him a new Austrian passport.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Grand_Decoration_of_Honour_in_Silver_for_Services_to_the_Republic_of_Austria/UQ4gq1zj">Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria</a> (2008)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:123" href="#fn:123"><sup>123</sup></a></li> <li>Honorary doctorate from the faculty of humanities of the <a href="/facts/Technical_University_of_Dortmund/mbWpIHcQ">Technical University of Dortmund</a> for his literary work (as 21 honorary doctorate) (2009)</li> <li>Alecrin Prize (2009, <a href="/facts/Vigo/jXJrknvE">Vigo</a>, Spain)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Djerassi_Glacier/aYdvgp19">Djerassi Glacier</a> on <a href="/facts/Brabant_Island/CI2FtHWu">Brabant Island</a> in <a href="/facts/Antarctica/bEM5Lem5">Antarctica</a> is named after Carl Djerassi (2009).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:124" href="#fn:124"><sup>124</sup></a></li> <li>Foreign Member of the <a href="/facts/Royal_Society/KI5yXCuV">Royal Society</a> (2010)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:125" href="#fn:125"><sup>125</sup></a></li> <li>Edinburgh Medal (2011)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:126" href="#fn:126"><sup>126</sup></a></li> <li>Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences, <a href="/facts/Heidelberg_University/4IaFa3jD">Heidelberg University</a> (2011)</li> <li>Honorary doctorate from the <a href="/facts/Porto_University/yj5uqwJ9">Porto University</a> (2011)</li> <li>Honorary doctorate from the <a href="/facts/University_of_Vienna/sc4vUUe8">University of Vienna</a> (2012)</li> <li>Honorary doctorate from the <a href="/facts/Medical_University_of_Vienna/rUkXuK5D">Medical University of Vienna</a> (2012)</li> <li>Honorary doctorate from the <a href="/facts/University_of_Applied_Arts%2c_Vienna/qDo5qVrL">University of Applied Arts, Vienna</a> (2013)</li> <li>Honorary doctorate from the Sigmund Freud University, Vienna (2013)</li> <li>Honorary doctorate from the <a href="/facts/American_University_in_Bulgaria/WN0W0MJy">American University in Bulgaria</a> (2013)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:127" href="#fn:127"><sup>127</sup></a></li> <li>Honorary doctorate from the <a href="/facts/University_of_Innsbruck/gQrLG5qC">University of Innsbruck</a> (2014)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:128" href="#fn:128"><sup>128</sup></a></li> <li>Djerassiplatz, the site of the University of Vienna Biology Building is named after him.</li></ul> <p>An award that eluded Djerassi was the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine/rlnpJX84">Nobel Prize</a>, where he is considered one of the more notable "snubs" by the Nobel Committee.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:129" href="#fn:129"><sup>129</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="personal-life">Personal life</h2> <p>Djerassi described himself as a "Jewish atheist".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:130" href="#fn:130"><sup>130</sup></a> </p><p>Djerassi was married three times and had two children. He and Virginia Jeremiah were married in 1943 and divorced in 1950.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:131" href="#fn:131"><sup>131</sup></a> Djerassi married writer Norma Lundholm (1917–2006) later that year.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:132" href="#fn:132"><sup>132</sup></a> They had two children together, and were divorced in 1976.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:133" href="#fn:133"><sup>133</sup></a> One year after his second divorce, Djerassi began a relationship with <a href="/facts/Diane_Middlebrook/rqcY0pHY">Diane Middlebrook</a>, a Stanford University professor of English and biographer.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:134" href="#fn:134"><sup>134</sup></a> In 1985, they were married and they lived between San Francisco and London, until her death on December 15, 2007, due to cancer.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:135" href="#fn:135"><sup>135</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:136" href="#fn:136"><sup>136</sup></a> </p><p>On July 5, 1978, Djerassi's artist daughter Pamela (born 1950; from his second marriage, to Norma Lundholm), committed suicide,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:137" href="#fn:137"><sup>137</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:138" href="#fn:138"><sup>138</sup></a> which is described in his autobiography. With Middlebrook's help, Djerassi then considered how he could help living artists, rather than collecting works of dead ones. He visited existing artist colonies, such as <a href="/facts/Yaddo/d5j7LEbM">Yaddo</a> and <a href="/facts/MacDowell_Colony/dY8m8XNT">MacDowell</a>, and decided to create his own, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:139" href="#fn:139"><sup>139</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:140" href="#fn:140"><sup>140</sup></a> He closed his cattle ranch and converted the barn and houses to residential and work space for artists.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:141" href="#fn:141"><sup>141</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:142" href="#fn:142"><sup>142</sup></a> He and his wife moved to a high rise in San Francisco that they had renovated. </p><p>Carl Djerassi died on January 30, 2015, at the age of 91, from complications of liver and bone cancer.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:143" href="#fn:143"><sup>143</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:144" href="#fn:144"><sup>144</sup></a> Upon his death he was survived by his son and grandson. </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carl Djerassi. Wikiquote has quotations related to <i>Carl Djerassi</i>. <ul><li><a href="http://www.djerassi.com/">Personal website</a> <ul><li><a href="http://www.djerassi.com/bio/bio2.html">Biography</a></li></ul></li> <li>Center for Oral History. <a href="https://oh.sciencehistory.org/oral-histories/djerassi-carl">"Carl Djerassi"</a>. <i><a href="/facts/Science_History_Institute/qC4b6qoQ">Science History Institute</a></i>.</li> <li>Sturchio, Jeffrey L.; Thackray, Arnold (July 31, 1985). <a href="https://oh.sciencehistory.org/sites/default/files/djerassi_c_0017_suppl.pdf"><i>Carl Djerassi, Transcript of an Interview Conducted by Jeffrey L. Sturchio and Arnold Thackray at Stanford University on July 31, 1985</i></a> (PDF). Philadelphia, PA: <a href="/facts/Science_History_Institute/qC4b6qoQ">Center for History of Chemistry</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://www.webofstories.com/gl/carl.djerassi">Carl Djerassi tells his life story</a> at <a href="/facts/Web_of_Stories/exLBERFz">Web of Stories</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.djerassi.org/">Djerassi Resident Artists Program</a></li> <li><a href="http://cen.acs.org/content/dam/cen/91/3/09103-scitech1-Nozoe155.jpg">Djerassi’s autograph</a> from <a href="http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i3/Autograph-Collector.html">The Chemical Record</a></li> <li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y_30HHlitenXG4rNMEtViLW1YbOOXy6a_OND_nD_5z-0tAjAjB-EyGT9PS-m/edit?usp=sharing/">Bob Weintraub, Israel Chemical Society. Pincus, Djerassi, and Oral Contraceptives</a></li> <li><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A%22Djerassi%2C%20Carl%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Carl%20Djerassi%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Djerassi%2C%20Carl%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Carl%20Djerassi%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Djerassi%2C%20C%2E%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Carl%20Djerassi%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Djerassi%2C%20Carl%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Carl%20Djerassi%22%29%20OR%20%28%221923-2015%22%20AND%20Djerassi%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:software%29">Works by or about Carl Djerassi</a> at the <a href="/facts/Internet_Archive/PHStU8Lo">Internet Archive</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Robert D. McFadden (January 31, 2015). "Carl Djerassi, 91, a Creator of the Birth Control Pill, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved January 31, 2015. Carl Djerassi, an eminent chemist who 63 years ago synthesized a hormone that changed the world by creating the key ingredient for the oral contraceptive known as 'the pill,' died at his home in San Francisco on Friday. He was 91. His son, Dale, said the cause was complications of liver and bone cancer.... <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/us/carl-djerassi-dies-at-91-forever-altered-reproductive-practices-as-a-creator-of-the-pill.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/us/carl-djerassi-dies-at-91-forever-altered-reproductive-practices-as-a-creator-of-the-pill.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Ball P (2015) "Carl Djerassi", Nature 519(7541), 34. <a href="/wiki/Nature_(journal)" target="_blank">/wiki/Nature_(journal)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Zare, R. N. (2015). "Carl Djerassi (1923-2015)". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54 (17): 5001–5002. doi:10.1002/anie.201501335. PMID 25809781. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fanie.201501335" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fanie.201501335</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Joachim Haupt (2008). Mein Leben – Carl Djerassi, der Vater der Pille (in German). ZDF, Arte. 43 minutes in. Archived from the original on February 20, 2017. Retrieved February 19, 2017. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170220092708/http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/039500-000-A/mein-leben-carl-djerassi-der-vater-der-pille" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20170220092708/http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/039500-000-A/mein-leben-carl-djerassi-der-vater-der-pille</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Carl Djerassi, father of the Pill – obituary", The Telegraph, February 2, 2015. <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11384755/Carl-Djerassi-father-of-the-Pill-obituary.html" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11384755/Carl-Djerassi-father-of-the-Pill-obituary.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Weintraub, Bob. "Pincus, Djerassi and Oral Contraceptives", Chemistry in Israel, Bulletin of the Israel Chemical Society. August 2005, pp. 47–50. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y_30HHlitenXG4rNMEtViLW1YbOOXy6a_OND_nD_5z-0tAjAjB-EyGT9PS-m/edit" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y_30HHlitenXG4rNMEtViLW1YbOOXy6a_OND_nD_5z-0tAjAjB-EyGT9PS-m/edit</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Robert D. McFadden (January 31, 2015). "Carl Djerassi, 91, a Creator of the Birth Control Pill, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved January 31, 2015. Carl Djerassi, an eminent chemist who 63 years ago synthesized a hormone that changed the world by creating the key ingredient for the oral contraceptive known as 'the pill,' died at his home in San Francisco on Friday. He was 91. His son, Dale, said the cause was complications of liver and bone cancer.... <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/us/carl-djerassi-dies-at-91-forever-altered-reproductive-practices-as-a-creator-of-the-pill.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/us/carl-djerassi-dies-at-91-forever-altered-reproductive-practices-as-a-creator-of-the-pill.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Wood, Gaby (April 14, 2007). "Father of the pill". The Guardian. Retrieved February 4, 2015. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/apr/15/healthandwellbeing.features1" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/apr/15/healthandwellbeing.features1</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Sturchio, Jeffrey L.; Thackray, Arnold (July 31, 1985). Carl Djerassi, Transcript of an Interview Conducted by Jeffrey L. 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