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</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Carl Djerassi</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption">Djerassi in 2004</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1923-10-29</span>)</span>October 29, 1923<br><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a>, Austria</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">January 30, 2015<span style="display:none">(2015-01-30)</span> (aged&nbsp;91)<br><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="San_Francisco%2C_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco, California">San Francisco, California</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">
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</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Austrian</li><li>American</li><li>Bulgarian</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma&nbsp;mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="plainlist">
<ul><li><a href="Kenyon_College" title="Kenyon College">Kenyon College</a> (BS)</li>
<li><a href="University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison">University of Wisconsin–Madison</a> (PhD)</li></ul>
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<ul><li>Development of <a href="Combined_oral_contraceptive_pill" title="Combined oral contraceptive pill">contraceptive pill</a></li>
<li><a href="Djerassi_Artists_Residency" title="Djerassi Artists Residency">Djerassi Artists Residency</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Samuel Djerassi (father)</li><li>Alice Friedmann (mother)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="Chemistry" title="Chemistry">Chemistry</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="plainlist">
<ul><li><a href="Syntex" title="Syntex">Syntex</a></li>
<li><a href="Wayne_State_University" title="Wayne State University">Wayne State University</a></li>
<li><a href="Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a></li></ul>
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</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.djerassi.com">www<wbr>.djerassi<wbr>.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Carl Djerassi</b> (October 29, 1923 – January 30, 2015) was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical <a href="Chemist" title="Chemist">chemist</a>, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with <a href="Diane_Middlebrook" title="Diane Middlebrook">Diane Wood Middlebrook</a>. He is best known for his contribution to the development of <a href="Combined_oral_contraceptive_pill" title="Combined oral contraceptive pill">oral contraceptive pills</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nature_ball_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nature_ball-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-zare_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zare-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> nicknamed the "father of the pill".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2></div>
<p>Carl Djerassi was born in <a href="Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a>, Austria, but spent the first years of his infancy in <a href="Sofia%2C_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Sofia, Bulgaria">Sofia, Bulgaria</a>, the home of his father, Samuel Djerassi, a dermatologist and specialist in sexually transmitted diseases.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Weintraub_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weintraub-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His mother was Alice Friedmann, a Viennese dentist and physician. Both parents were <a href="History_of_the_Jews_in_Europe" title="History of the Jews in Europe">Jewish</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</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="Sigmund_Freud" title="Sigmund Freud">Sigmund Freud</a> had attended many years earlier;<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianInterview_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianInterview-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> spending summers in Bulgaria with his father.<sup id="cite_ref-CHFOralHistory_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHFOralHistory-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Austria refused him citizenship and after the <a href="Anschluss" title="Anschluss">Anschluss</a>, his father briefly remarried his mother in 1938 to allow Carl and his mother to escape the <a href="Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi">Nazi</a> regime and flee to Sofia, Bulgaria, where he lived with his father for a year.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="The_Holocaust_in_Bulgaria" title="The Holocaust in Bulgaria">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="American_College_of_Sofia" title="American College of Sofia">American College of Sofia</a> where he became fluent in English.<sup id="cite_ref-CHFOralHistory_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHFOralHistory-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</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.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1949, his father emigrated to the United States,<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> practiced in <a href="Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> and <a href="West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a>, and eventually retired near his son in <a href="San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, <a href="California" title="California">California</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2></div>
<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="American_College_of_Sofia" title="American College of Sofia">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="Eleanor_Roosevelt" title="Eleanor Roosevelt">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="Institute_of_International_Education" title="Institute of International Education">Institute of International Education</a> with a full scholarship to <a href="Tarkio_College" title="Tarkio College">Tarkio College</a> where he briefly attended, and then studied chemistry at <a href="Kenyon_College" title="Kenyon College">Kenyon College</a>, where he graduated <i><a href="Latin_honors#Types" title="Latin honors">summa cum laude</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-OH_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OH-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CHFOralHistory_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHFOralHistory-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After one year at <a href="Novartis" title="Novartis">CIBA</a>, he moved to the <a href="University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison">University of Wisconsin–Madison</a> where he earned his PhD in organic chemistry in 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-Weintraub_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weintraub-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His thesis work examined the transformation of the male sex hormone <a href="Testosterone" title="Testosterone">testosterone</a> into the female sex hormone <a href="Estradiol" title="Estradiol">estradiol</a>, through a sequence of chemical reactions.<sup id="cite_ref-CHFJMD_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHFJMD-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2></div>
<p>In 1942/43, Djerassi worked for <a href="Chemical_Industry_Basel" class="mw-redirect" title="Chemical Industry Basel">CIBA</a> in <a href="New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>, developing <a href="Pyribenzamine" class="mw-redirect" title="Pyribenzamine">Pyribenzamine</a><sup id="cite_ref-CHFOralHistory_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHFOralHistory-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (tripelennamine), his first patent and one of the first commercial <a href="Antihistamines" class="mw-redirect" title="Antihistamines">antihistamines</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nature_ball_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nature_ball-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 1949 Djerassi became associate director of research at <a href="Syntex" title="Syntex">Syntex</a> in <a href="Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a> and remained there through 1951.<sup id="cite_ref-CHFOralHistory_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHFOralHistory-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has said that one factor influencing him to choose Syntex was that they had a <a href="DU_spectrophotometer" title="DU spectrophotometer">DU spectrophotometer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Instrumentation_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Instrumentation-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He worked on a new synthesis of <a href="Cortisone" title="Cortisone">cortisone</a> based on <a href="Diosgenin" title="Diosgenin">diosgenin</a>, a <a href="Steroid" title="Steroid">steroid</a> <a href="Sapogenin" title="Sapogenin">sapogenin</a> derived from a Mexican wild yam.<sup id="cite_ref-Syntex2005_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Syntex2005-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His team later synthesized <a href="Norethisterone" title="Norethisterone">norethisterone</a> (norethindrone),<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the first highly active <a href="Progestin" class="mw-redirect" title="Progestin">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="The_Pill" class="mw-redirect" title="The Pill">the Pill</a>. From 1952 to 1959 he was professor of chemistry at <a href="Wayne_State_University" title="Wayne State University">Wayne State University</a> in Detroit.<sup id="cite_ref-CHFOralHistory_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHFOralHistory-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Djerassi participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican <a href="Luis_E._Miramontes" title="Luis E. Miramontes">Luis E. Miramontes</a> and Hungarian-Mexican <a href="George_Rosenkranz" title="George Rosenkranz">George Rosenkranz</a>, of the <a href="Progestin" class="mw-redirect" title="Progestin">progestin</a> <a href="Norethisterone" title="Norethisterone">norethisterone</a>—which, unlike <a href="Progesterone" title="Progesterone">progesterone</a>, remained effective when taken orally and was far stronger than the naturally occurring <a href="Hormone" title="Hormone">hormone</a>. His preparation was first administered as an oral contraceptive to animals by <a href="Gregory_Goodwin_Pincus" class="mw-redirect" title="Gregory Goodwin Pincus">Gregory Goodwin Pincus</a> and <a href="Min_Chueh_Chang" title="Min Chueh Chang">Min Chueh Chang</a> and to women by <a href="John_Rock_(American_scientist)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Rock (American scientist)">John Rock</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GaurdianObituary_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GaurdianObituary-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</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="Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-CHFOralHistory_8-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHFOralHistory-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a position he held until 2002 <sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but only part-time as he never left industry.<sup id="cite_ref-zare_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zare-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1968 until 1972 he also served as president of Syntex Research at <a href="Palo_Alto" class="mw-redirect" title="Palo Alto">Palo Alto</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CHFOralHistory_8-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHFOralHistory-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The Syntex connection brought wealth to Djerassi. He bought a large tract of land in <a href="San_Mateo_County%2C_California" title="San Mateo County, California">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="Paul_Klee" title="Paul Klee">Paul Klee</a> was considered to be one of the most significant to be privately held.<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianInterview_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianInterview-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ArtistsProgram_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArtistsProgram-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He arranged for his Klee collections to be donated to the <a href="Albertina" title="Albertina">Albertina</a> in Vienna and the <a href="San_Francisco_Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="San Francisco Museum of Modern Art">San Francisco Museum of Modern Art</a>, effective on his death.<sup id="cite_ref-Tattler_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tattler-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</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="Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a>, and as an entrepreneur. He pioneered novel physical research techniques for <a href="Mass_spectrometry" title="Mass spectrometry">mass spectrometry</a> and <a href="Optical_rotatory_dispersion" title="Optical rotatory dispersion">optical rotatory dispersion</a> and applied them to the areas of <a href="Organic_chemistry" title="Organic chemistry">organic chemistry</a> and the life sciences.<sup id="cite_ref-Reinhardt2015_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reinhardt2015-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Focusing on the steroid hormones and alkaloids, he elucidated the structure of steroids, an area in which he published over 1,200 papers.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-Reinhardt2015_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reinhardt2015-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 1968, he started a new company, Zoecon,<sup id="cite_ref-CHFOralHistory_8-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHFOralHistory-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which focused on environmentally soft methods of <a href="Pest_control" title="Pest control">pest control</a>, using modified insect growth hormones to stop insects from metamorphosing from the larval stage to the <a href="Pupa" title="Pupa">pupal</a> and adult stages.<sup id="cite_ref-Roaches_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roaches-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Zoecon was eventually acquired by <a href="Occidental_Petroleum" title="Occidental Petroleum">Occidental Petroleum</a>, which later sold it to <a href="Sandoz" title="Sandoz">Sandoz</a>, now <a href="Novartis" title="Novartis">Novartis</a>. Part of Zoecon survives in <a href="Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas</a>, Texas, making products to control <a href="Flea" title="Flea">fleas</a> and other pests.
</p><p>In 1965 at Stanford University, nobel laureate <a href="Joshua_Lederberg" title="Joshua Lederberg">Joshua Lederberg</a>, computer scientist <a href="Edward_Feigenbaum" title="Edward Feigenbaum">Edward Feigenbaum</a>, and Djerassi devised the computer program <a href="Dendral" title="Dendral">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.<sup id="cite_ref-NLM_2011_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NLM_2011-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was a prototype for <a href="Expert_system" title="Expert system">expert systems</a> and one of the first uses of <a href="Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> in biomedical research.<sup id="cite_ref-NLM_2011_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NLM_2011-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Djerassi was a member of the Board of Sponsors of the <i><a href="Bulletin_of_the_Atomic_Scientists" title="Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists">Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was chairman of the <a href="Pharmanex" class="mw-redirect" title="Pharmanex">Pharmanex</a> Scientific Advisory Board.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2></div>
<p>Djerassi published widely as a novelist, playwright and scientist.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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."<sup id="cite_ref-CHFOralHistory_8-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHFOralHistory-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Reinhardt2015_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reinhardt2015-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
He went on to write several novels in the "science-in-fiction" genre, including <i>Cantor's Dilemma</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-dilemma_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dilemma-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-Reinhardt2015_19-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reinhardt2015-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He wrote a number of plays which have been performed and extensively translated.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian2014_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian2014-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SFGate_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFGate-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-Sterken_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sterken-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Science-in-fiction">Science-in-fiction</h3></div>
<p>Djerassi wrote five novels, four of which he described as "science-in-fiction",<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> fiction that portrays the lives of real scientists, with all their accomplishments, conflicts, and aspirations. The genre is also referred to as <a href="Lab_lit" title="Lab lit">Lab lit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT2006_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT2006-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</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.<sup id="cite_ref-Bourbaki_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bourbaki-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the third, <i>Menachem's Seed</i>, <a href="Intracytoplasmic_sperm_injection" title="Intracytoplasmic sperm injection">ICSI</a> and the <a href="Pugwash_Conferences_on_Science_and_World_Affairs" title="Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs">Pugwash</a> organization are the main themes.<sup id="cite_ref-Pugwash_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pugwash-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the last, <i>NO</i>, he shows how young scientists develop an idea as far as founding a company to market a product<sup id="cite_ref-MalePhill_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MalePhill-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – 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.<sup id="cite_ref-MarxReview_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MarxReview-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also plays with this topic in <i>Bourbaki Gambit</i>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Science-in-theatre">Science-in-theatre</h3></div>
<p>After his success with prose literature in the Science-in-Fiction genre, Djerassi started to write plays.<sup id="cite_ref-SFGate_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFGate-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian2014_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian2014-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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<sup id="cite_ref-Jordan_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jordan-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Djerassi's first play, <i>An Immaculate Misconception</i> (1998), dealing with the in vitro fertilization procedure ICSI,<sup id="cite_ref-Levy2000_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Levy2000-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was followed by two plays about priority struggles in the history of science, <i>Oxygen</i> (co-authored with <a href="Roald_Hoffmann" title="Roald Hoffmann">Roald Hoffmann</a>, 1999)<sup id="cite_ref-Stanford2001_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stanford2001-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Calculus</i> (2002),<sup id="cite_ref-Campos_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campos-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a drama at the intersection of chemistry and art history, <i>Phallacy</i> (2004).<sup id="cite_ref-Rohn_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rohn-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Ego</i> (2003, also produced under the title <i>Three on a Couch</i>),<sup id="cite_ref-Grünzweig_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grünzweig-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> together with the docudrama <i>Four Jews on Parnassus</i> (2006, publ. 2008)<sup id="cite_ref-Four_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Four-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Foreplay</i> (2010),<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian2014_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian2014-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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;<sup id="cite_ref-NYT2008_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT2008-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> his 2012 play <i>Insufficiency</i> is a bitter satire of both the scientific community and academic environments.<sup id="cite_ref-SFGate_30-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFGate-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <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="Red_Biotechnology" class="mw-redirect" title="Red Biotechnology">REDBIO</a>-Argentina 2013 and featured in universities and theaters.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</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.<sup id="cite_ref-Valsler_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Valsler-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-Priest_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Priest-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-Grünzweig_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grünzweig-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Djerassi's plays have found their way into theaters around the globe and have been translated into many European and Asian languages.<sup id="cite_ref-SFGate_30-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFGate-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Djerassi repeatedly revised his plays and some of them have different versions and multiple endings<sup id="cite_ref-Oxygen3_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oxygen3-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (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.<sup id="cite_ref-Curtain_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Curtain-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry">Poetry</h3></div>
<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>).<sup id="cite_ref-Dardis_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dardis-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-fiction">Non-fiction</h3></div>
<ul><li><i>Optical Rotatory Dispersion</i>, McGraw-Hill &amp; Company, 1960.</li>
<li><i>The Politics of Contraception</i><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Steroids Made it Possible</i><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse</i><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>From the Lab into The World: A Pill for People, Pets, and Bugs</i><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Paul Klee: Masterpieces of the Djerassi Collection</i><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Dalla pillola alla penna</i><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>This Man's Pill: Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill</i><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>In Retrospect&nbsp;: From the Pill to the Pen</i><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiction">Fiction</h3></div>
<ul><li><i>Cantor's Dilemma</i>, 1989<sup id="cite_ref-dilemma_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dilemma-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>The Bourbaki Gambit</i>, 1994<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>The Futurist and Other Stories</i><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>How I Beat Coca-Cola and Other Tales of One-Upmanship</i><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Marx, Deceased. A Novel</i>, 1996<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Menachem's Seed. A Novel</i>, 1997<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>NO. A Novel</i>, 1998<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Drama">Drama</h3></div>
<ul><li><i>Chemistry in Theatre: Insufficiency, Phallacy or Both</i><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Foreplay: Hannah Arendt, the Two Adornos, and Walter Benjamin</i><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Four Jews on <a href="Parnassus" class="mw-redirect" title="Parnassus">Parnassus</a></i></li>
<li><i>An Immaculate Misconception: Sex in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction</i><sup id="cite_ref-immaculate_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-immaculate-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
<ul><li>L.A. Theatre Works<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Oxygen_(play)" title="Oxygen (play)"><i>Oxygen</i></a> (with <a href="Roald_Hoffmann" title="Roald Hoffmann">Roald Hoffmann</a>, coauthor)<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Newton's Darkness: Two Dramatic Views</i><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Sex in an Age of Technological Reproduction: <a href="Intracytoplasmic_sperm_injection" title="Intracytoplasmic sperm injection">ICSI</a> and TABOOS</i><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> translated to Spanish and brought to scene by Dr. Àgata Baizán<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2></div>

<p>Djerassi won numerous awards during his career including:
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<ul><li><a href="Ernest_Guenther_Award" title="Ernest Guenther Award">Ernest Guenther Award</a> in Chemistry and Natural Products by the <a href="American_Chemical_Society" title="American Chemical Society">American Chemical Society</a> (1960)<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Scheele_Award" title="Scheele Award">Scheele Award</a> (1972)</li>
<li><a href="National_Medal_of_Science" title="National Medal of Science">National Medal of Science</a> (President of the United States of America, 1973) for his work on the contraceptive pill<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (The award was somewhat ironic in that his name at the time was on the infamous "<a href="Master_list_of_Nixon_political_opponents" class="mw-redirect" title="Master list of Nixon political opponents">Nixon's enemies list</a>", which was compiled by <a href="Charles_Colson" title="Charles Colson">Charles Colson</a> and <a href="Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a>. He learned this from an article in the <i><a href="San_Francisco_Examiner" title="San Francisco Examiner">San Francisco Examiner</a></i>, several months later.)</li>
<li><a href="Perkin_Medal" title="Perkin Medal">Perkin Medal</a> (1975)<sup id="cite_ref-SCI_Perkin_Medal_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SCI_Perkin_Medal-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Inducted into the <a href="National_Inventors_Hall_of_Fame" title="National Inventors Hall of Fame">National Inventors Hall of Fame</a> (1978)<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>First recipient of the <a href="Wolf_Prize" title="Wolf Prize">Wolf Prize</a>, 1978<sup id="cite_ref-AICAll_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AICAll-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="National_Medal_of_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="National Medal of Technology">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="Academy_of_Achievement" title="Academy of Achievement">American Academy of Achievement</a> (1980)<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Priestley_Medal" title="Priestley Medal">Priestley Medal</a> (<a href="American_Chemical_Society" title="American Chemical Society">American Chemical Society</a>, 1992)<sup id="cite_ref-CHFOralHistory_8-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHFOralHistory-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Willard_Gibbs_Award" title="Willard Gibbs Award">Willard Gibbs Award</a> (Chicago Section of the <a href="American_Chemical_Society" title="American Chemical Society">American Chemical Society</a>., 1997)</li>
<li><a href="Austrian_Cross_of_Honour_for_Science_and_Art%2C_1st_class" class="mw-redirect" title="Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class">Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class</a> (1999)<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Othmer_Gold_Medal" title="Othmer Gold Medal">Othmer Gold Medal</a> (2000)<sup id="cite_ref-2000CAEN_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2000CAEN-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CHFAll_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHFAll-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Prize of the <a href="German_Chemical_Society" title="German Chemical Society">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="Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany">Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany</a> (2003)</li>
<li>Erasmus Medal of the <a href="Academia_Europaea" title="Academia Europaea">Academia Europaea</a> (2003)</li>
<li><a href="American_Institute_of_Chemists_Gold_Medal" title="American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal">American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal</a> (2004)<sup id="cite_ref-AICAll_85-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AICAll-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Lichtenberg_Medal" title="Lichtenberg Medal">Lichtenberg Medal</a> of the <a href="G%C3%B6ttingen_Academy_of_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Göttingen Academy of Sciences">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)<sup id="cite_ref-Weintraub_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weintraub-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Austrian government also sent him a new Austrian passport.</li>
<li><a href="Grand_Decoration_of_Honour_in_Silver_for_Services_to_the_Republic_of_Austria" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria">Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria</a> (2008)<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Honorary doctorate from the faculty of humanities of the <a href="Technical_University_of_Dortmund" title="Technical University of Dortmund">Technical University of Dortmund</a> for his literary work (as 21 honorary doctorate) (2009)</li>
<li>Alecrin Prize (2009, <a href="Vigo" title="Vigo">Vigo</a>, Spain)</li>
<li><a href="Djerassi_Glacier" title="Djerassi Glacier">Djerassi Glacier</a> on <a href="Brabant_Island" title="Brabant Island">Brabant Island</a> in <a href="Antarctica" title="Antarctica">Antarctica</a> is named after Carl Djerassi (2009).<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Foreign Member of the <a href="Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a> (2010)<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Edinburgh Medal (2011)<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences, <a href="Heidelberg_University" title="Heidelberg University">Heidelberg University</a> (2011)</li>
<li>Honorary doctorate from the <a href="Porto_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Porto University">Porto University</a> (2011)</li>
<li>Honorary doctorate from the <a href="University_of_Vienna" title="University of Vienna">University of Vienna</a> (2012)</li>
<li>Honorary doctorate from the <a href="Medical_University_of_Vienna" title="Medical University of Vienna">Medical University of Vienna</a> (2012)</li>
<li>Honorary doctorate from the <a href="University_of_Applied_Arts%2C_Vienna" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Applied Arts, Vienna">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="American_University_in_Bulgaria" title="American University in Bulgaria">American University in Bulgaria</a> (2013)<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Honorary doctorate from the <a href="University_of_Innsbruck" title="University of Innsbruck">University of Innsbruck</a> (2014)<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></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="Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine" title="Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine">Nobel Prize</a>, where he is considered one of the more notable "snubs" by the Nobel Committee.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div>
<p>Djerassi described himself as a "Jewish atheist".<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Djerassi was married three times and had two children. He and Virginia Jeremiah were married in 1943 and divorced in 1950.<sup id="cite_ref-Australia_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Australia-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Djerassi married writer Norma Lundholm (1917–2006) later that year.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had two children together, and were divorced in 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-WhoWho_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WhoWho-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One year after his second divorce, Djerassi began a relationship with <a href="Diane_Middlebrook" title="Diane Middlebrook">Diane Middlebrook</a>, a Stanford University professor of English and biographer.<sup id="cite_ref-DM_death_Stanford_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DM_death_Stanford-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1985, they were married and they lived between San Francisco and London, until her death on December 15, 2007, due to cancer.<sup id="cite_ref-DM_death_Stanford_101-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DM_death_Stanford-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>On July 5, 1978, Djerassi's artist daughter Pamela (born 1950; from his second marriage, to Norma Lundholm), committed suicide,<sup id="cite_ref-conversation_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-conversation-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bbcdid_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcdid-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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="Yaddo" title="Yaddo">Yaddo</a> and <a href="MacDowell_Colony" class="mw-redirect" title="MacDowell Colony">MacDowell</a>, and decided to create his own, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianInterview_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianInterview-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ArtistsProgram_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArtistsProgram-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He closed his cattle ranch and converted the barn and houses to residential and work space for artists.<sup id="cite_ref-Residences_105-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Residences-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ArchDigest_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArchDigest-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon his death he was survived by his son and grandson.
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<li id="cite_note-102"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-102">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mills, John, <i>Which Yet Survive. Impressions of Friends, Family and Encounters</i>, Quartet Books, London, 2017</span>
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<li id="cite_note-conversation-103"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-conversation_103-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://vimeo.com/59485470">A Conversation with Carl Djerassi</a> on <a href="Vimeo" title="Vimeo">Vimeo</a> interviewed by Roger Kornberg, <i>Annual Review of Biochemistry</i></span>
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<li id="cite_note-bbcdid-104"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-bbcdid_104-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00947hh">Carl Djerassi, Desert Island Discs</a>, <a href="BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>, 2002.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Residences-105"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Residences_105-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFKing2011" class="citation news cs1">King, John (September 7, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Diane-Middlebrook-Memorial-Writers-Residences-2311176.php">"Diane Middlebrook Memorial Writers' Residences"</a>. <i>SFGate</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 4,</span> 2015</span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-ArchDigest-106"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ArchDigest_106-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2012/06/cass-calder-smith-djerassi-resident-artists-program">"Cass Calder Smith's Bold New Cabins at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program"</a>. <i>Architectural Digest</i>. June 8, 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 4,</span> 2015</span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-107"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-107">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://forward.com/articles/213863/carl-djerassi-who-helped-discover-birth-control-pi/?">"Carl Djerassi, Who Helped Discover Birth Control Pill, Dies at 91"</a>. forward.com. January 31, 2015.</cite></span>
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<li><cite id="CITEREFSturchioThackray1985" class="citation book cs1">Sturchio, Jeffrey L.; Thackray, Arnold (July 31, 1985). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Philadelphia, PA: <a href="Science_History_Institute" title="Science History Institute">Center for History of Chemistry</a>.</cite></li>
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</style><div id="Laureates_of_the_Wolf_Prize_in_Chemistry74" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Laureates of the <a href="Wolf_Prize_in_Chemistry" title="Wolf Prize in Chemistry">Wolf Prize in Chemistry</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#d3d3d3;">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li> (1978)</li>
<li><a href="Herman_Francis_Mark" title="Herman Francis Mark">Herman Mark</a> (1979)</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Henry_Eyring_(chemist)" title="Henry Eyring (chemist)">Henry Eyring</a> (1980)</li>
<li><a href="Joseph_Chatt" title="Joseph Chatt">Joseph Chatt</a> (1981)</li>
<li><a href="John_Polanyi" title="John Polanyi">John Charles Polanyi</a> / <a href="George_C._Pimentel" title="George C. Pimentel">George C. Pimentel</a> (1982)</li>
<li><a href="Herbert_S._Gutowsky" title="Herbert S. Gutowsky">Herbert S. Gutowsky</a> / <a href="Harden_M._McConnell" title="Harden M. McConnell">Harden M. McConnell</a> / <a href="John_S._Waugh" title="John S. Waugh">John S. Waugh</a> (1983/4)</li>
<li><a href="Rudolph_A._Marcus" title="Rudolph A. Marcus">Rudolph A. Marcus</a> (1984/5)</li>
<li><a href="Elias_James_Corey" title="Elias James Corey">Elias James Corey</a> / <a href="Albert_Eschenmoser" title="Albert Eschenmoser">Albert Eschenmoser</a> (1986)</li>
<li><a href="David_Chilton_Phillips" title="David Chilton Phillips">David C. Phillips</a> / <a href="David_Mervyn_Blow" title="David Mervyn Blow">David Blow</a> (1987)</li>
<li><a href="Joshua_Jortner" title="Joshua Jortner">Joshua Jortner</a> / <a href="Raphael_David_Levine" title="Raphael David Levine">Raphael David Levine</a> (1988)</li>
<li><a href="Duilio_Arigoni" title="Duilio Arigoni">Duilio Arigoni</a> / <a href="Alan_R._Battersby" title="Alan R. Battersby">Alan R. Battersby</a> (1989)</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Richard_R._Ernst" title="Richard R. Ernst">Richard R. Ernst</a> / <a href="Alexander_Pines" title="Alexander Pines">Alexander Pines</a> (1991)</li>
<li><a href="John_Pople" title="John Pople">John Pople</a> (1992)</li>
<li><a href="Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail">Ahmed Zewail</a> (1993)</li>
<li><a href="Richard_Lerner" title="Richard Lerner">Richard Lerner</a> / <a href="Peter_G._Schultz" title="Peter G. Schultz">Peter Schultz</a> (1994/5)</li>
<li><a href="Gilbert_Stork" title="Gilbert Stork">Gilbert Stork</a> / <a href="Samuel_J._Danishefsky" title="Samuel J. Danishefsky">Samuel J. Danishefsky</a> (1995/6)</li>
<li><a href="Gerhard_Ertl" title="Gerhard Ertl">Gerhard Ertl</a> / <a href="G%C3%A1bor_A._Somorjai" title="Gábor A. Somorjai">Gabor A. Somorjai</a> (1998)</li>
<li><a href="Raymond_Lemieux" title="Raymond Lemieux">Raymond Lemieux</a> (1999)</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="F._Albert_Cotton" title="F. Albert Cotton">F. Albert Cotton</a> (2000)</li>
<li><a href="Henri_B._Kagan" title="Henri B. Kagan">Henri B. Kagan</a> / <a href="Ry%C5%8Dji_Noyori" title="Ryōji Noyori">Ryōji Noyori</a> / <a href="Karl_Barry_Sharpless" title="Karl Barry Sharpless">K. Barry Sharpless</a> (2001)</li>
<li><a href="Harry_B._Gray" title="Harry B. Gray">Harry B. Gray</a> (2004)</li>
<li><a href="Richard_Zare" title="Richard Zare">Richard N. Zare</a> (2005)</li>
<li><a href="Ada_Yonath" title="Ada Yonath">Ada Yonath</a> / <a href="George_Feher" title="George Feher">George Feher</a> (2006/7)</li>
<li><a href="William_E._Moerner" title="William E. Moerner">William E. Moerner</a> / <a href="Allen_J._Bard" title="Allen J. Bard">Allen J. Bard</a> (2008)</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Stuart_A._Rice" title="Stuart A. Rice">Stuart A. Rice</a> / <a href="Ching_Wan_Tang" title="Ching Wan Tang">Ching Wan Tang</a> / <a href="Krzysztof_Matyjaszewski" title="Krzysztof Matyjaszewski">Krzysztof Matyjaszewski</a> (2011)</li>
<li><a href="Paul_Alivisatos" title="Paul Alivisatos">Paul Alivisatos</a> / <a href="Charles_M._Lieber" title="Charles M. Lieber">Charles M. Lieber</a> (2012)</li>
<li><a href="Robert_S._Langer" title="Robert S. Langer">Robert S. Langer</a> (2013)</li>
<li><a href="Chi-Huey_Wong" title="Chi-Huey Wong">Chi-Huey Wong</a> (2014)</li>
<li><a href="K._C._Nicolaou" class="mw-redirect" title="K. C. Nicolaou">K. C. Nicolaou</a> / <a href="Stuart_Schreiber" title="Stuart Schreiber">Stuart Schreiber</a> (2016)</li>
<li><a href="Robert_G._Bergman" title="Robert G. Bergman">Robert G. Bergman</a> (2017)</li>
<li><a href="Omar_M._Yaghi" title="Omar M. Yaghi">Omar M. Yaghi</a> / <a href="Makoto_Fujita_(chemist)" title="Makoto Fujita (chemist)">Makoto Fujita</a> (2018)</li>
<li><a href="Stephen_L._Buchwald" title="Stephen L. Buchwald">Stephen L. Buchwald</a> / <a href="John_F._Hartwig" title="John F. Hartwig">John F. Hartwig</a> (2019)</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Leslie_Leiserowitz" title="Leslie Leiserowitz">Leslie Leiserowitz</a> / <a href="Meir_Lahav" title="Meir Lahav">Meir Lahav</a> (2021)</li>
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<li><a href="Chuan_He" title="Chuan He">Chuan He</a> / <a href="Hiroaki_Suga" title="Hiroaki Suga">Hiroaki Suga</a> / <a href="Jeffery_W._Kelly" title="Jeffery W. Kelly">Jeffery W. Kelly</a> (2023)</li>
<li><a href="Helmut_F._Schwarz" class="mw-redirect" title="Helmut F. Schwarz">Helmut F. Schwarz</a> (2025)</li></ul>
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<li><i><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21165108" class="extiw external" title="d:Q21165108">Peter Cawley</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Nicola_Clayton" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicola Clayton">Nicola Susan Clayton</a></li>
<li><a href="Jack_Connor_(physicist)" title="Jack Connor (physicist)">John William Connor</a></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21165873" class="extiw external" title="d:Q21165873">Russell Cowburn</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Gideon_Davies" title="Gideon Davies">Gideon Davies</a></li>
<li><a href="Donald_A._Dawson" title="Donald A. Dawson">Donald Dawson</a></li>
<li><a href="Raymond_Joseph_Dolan" title="Raymond Joseph Dolan">Raymond Dolan</a></li>
<li><a href="Hugh_F._Durrant-Whyte" title="Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte">Hugh Durrant-Whyte</a></li>
<li><a href="Lyn_Evans" title="Lyn Evans">Lyndon Evans</a></li>
<li><a href="Richard_Evershed" title="Richard Evershed">Richard Evershed</a></li>
<li><a href="Georg_Gottlob" title="Georg Gottlob">Georg Gottlob</a></li>
<li><a href="Ben_Green_(mathematician)" title="Ben Green (mathematician)">Ben Green</a></li>
<li><a href="Robert_Griffiths_(mathematician)" title="Robert Griffiths (mathematician)">Robert Griffiths</a></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21165788" class="extiw external" title="d:Q21165788">Roger Hardie</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Michael_Harvey_Hastings" title="Michael Harvey Hastings">Michael Hastings</a></li>
<li><a href="Andrew_Hattersley" title="Andrew Hattersley">Andrew Hattersley</a></li>
<li><a href="Craig_Hawker" title="Craig Hawker">Craig Hawker</a></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21165834" class="extiw external" title="d:Q21165834">Ron Hay</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21165114" class="extiw external" title="d:Q21165114">Ian Hickson</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2313573" class="extiw external" title="d:Q2313573">Peter Horton</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Jeremy_Hutson" title="Jeremy Hutson">Jeremy Hutson</a></li>
<li><a href="Victoria_Kaspi" title="Victoria Kaspi">Victoria Kaspi</a></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21166562" class="extiw external" title="d:Q21166562">Lewis Kay</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Ondrej_Krivanek" title="Ondrej Krivanek">Ondrej Krivanek</a></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21165211" class="extiw external" title="d:Q21165211">Angus Lamond</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21165028" class="extiw external" title="d:Q21165028">Alan Lehmann</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21166627" class="extiw external" title="d:Q21166627">Malcolm McCulloch</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Robin_Murray" title="Robin Murray">Robin Murray</a></li>
<li><a href="Robin_Perutz" title="Robin Perutz">Robin Perutz</a></li>
<li><a href="Max_Pettini" title="Max Pettini">Max Pettini</a></li>
<li><a href="Thomas_Platts-Mills" title="Thomas Platts-Mills">Thomas Platts-Mills</a></li>
<li><a href="Wolf_Reik" title="Wolf Reik">Wolf Reik</a></li>
<li><a href="Loren_H._Rieseberg" title="Loren H. Rieseberg">Loren Rieseberg</a></li>
<li><i><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21165217" class="extiw external" title="d:Q21165217">Peter Rigby</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Ezio_Rizzardo" title="Ezio Rizzardo">Ezio Rizzardo</a></li>
<li><a href="Elizabeth_Simpson_(biologist)" title="Elizabeth Simpson (biologist)">Elizabeth Simpson</a></li>
<li><a href="Alan_Smith_(geneticist)" title="Alan Smith (geneticist)">Alan Smith</a></li>
<li><a href="Eric_Wolff" title="Eric Wolff">Eric Wolff</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Honorary</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Melvyn_Bragg" title="Melvyn Bragg">Melvyn Bragg</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Pascale_Cossart" title="Pascale Cossart">Pascale Cossart</a></li>

<li><a href="Ludvig_Faddeev" title="Ludvig Faddeev">Ludvig Faddeev</a></li>
<li><a href="Edmond_H._Fischer" title="Edmond H. Fischer">Edmond H. Fischer</a></li>
<li><a href="Michael_Frank_Goodchild" title="Michael Frank Goodchild">Michael Goodchild</a></li>
<li><a href="John_B._Goodenough" title="John B. Goodenough">John B. Goodenough</a></li>
<li><a href="Detlef_Weigel" title="Detlef Weigel">Detlef Weigel</a></li>
<li><a href="Kurt_W%C3%BCthrich" title="Kurt Wüthrich">Kurt Wüthrich</a></li></ul>
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