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Bookmark or Share- Development of ‘the pill’ examined — Harvard GazetteJohn Rock, a Harvard College and Harvard Medical School (HMS) graduate who spent his career at Harvard Medical School and the Free Hospital for Women — today Brigham and Women’s Hospital — invested as much effort into figuring out how to make infertile women fertile as he did finding out how to use hormones in an oral contraceptive, which ...
- John Rock: Pioneer in the Development of Oral ContraceptivesGynecologist and obstetrician John Charles Rock is credited, along with endocrinologist-biologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903-1967), with developing the first effective oral contraceptive.
- John Charles Rock (1890-1984) | Embryo Project EncyclopediaBorn on 24 March 1890 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, to Ann and Frank Rock, John Charles Rock was both a devout Catholic and one of the leading investigators involved in the development of the first oral contraceptive pill.
- John Sweat Rock - U.S. National Park ServiceDentist, doctor, lawyer, and activist John Sweat Rock fought against slavery and for the elevation of the Black community. Born in New Jersey to free parents, John S. Rock received a strong education as a youth and carried that dedication to learning throughout his life.
- John Rock: Pioneer in the Development of Oral ContraceptivesGynecologist and obstetrician John Charles Rock is credited, along with endocrinologist-biologist Greg-ory Goodwin Pincus (1903-1967), with developing the first effective oral contraceptive. The introduction of “the Pill” in 1960 initiated a worldwide sociomedical revolution and led to the use of the pill by millions of women throughout the world.
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