Gregory Goodwin Pincus.

Gregory Goodwin Pincus Gregory Goodwin Pincus, an endocrinologist, was born in Woodbine, New Jersey on April 9, 1903. He was educated at Cornell University, in England and at Harvard University, in Boston, Massachusetts. He also studied in Germany. He was a staff member at Harvard University, Clark University, Boston University, and Tufts Medical School, all in Massachusetts. Pincus was Research Director at the Worchester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Pincus co-founded this foundation with Hudson …

…Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved of the first oral contraceptive for distribution. Since then, this pill has been improved and is now used widely and very often by females all around the world. Some of his books are The Eggs of Mammals (1936) and The Control of Fertility (1965). He also edited many monographs and scientific papers regarding sexual hormones and the male and female reproductive processes in mammals. Pincus died on August 22, 1967 in Boston, Massachusetts.