biography
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Chang, M(in)-C(hueh)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1909–91)
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| biography:
| Reproductive biologist, born in Taiyuan, NEC China. He emigrated to England to study animal husbandry at Cambridge and Edinburgh, and worked on artificial insemination. In 1945 he joined the staff of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Worcester, MA, collaborating with Gregory Pincus and John Rock on the creation of an oral contraceptive for women. The birth control pill was ready for human testing by 1956, and was marketed as Enovid in 1960. He is also credited with being the discoverer of in vitro fertilization from work conducted in the 1950s, as well as a process known as the capacitation of sperm. |
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