Carl Djerassi: scientists aren't just Frankensteins or Strangeloves or nerds by Laura Barnett

The inventor of the pill, who is also a prolific writer of fiction, talks about his latest play " a comedy about chemistryIt says a lot about Carl Djerassi that his first venture into literature was as an act of revenge. It was 1983; he was 60, an eminent professor of chemistry at Stanford University, famous for his successful synthesis, in 1951, of norethindrone, the first oral contraceptive. And he was in love with…

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