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Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-invented the birth-control pill (born 1925)

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Luis E. Miramontes

Mexican chemist

Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas was a Mexican chemist known as co-inventor and the first to synthesize an oral contraceptive, progestin norethisterone.
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Combined oral contraceptive pill

Birth control method taken orally

The combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth control pill or colloquially as "the pill", is a type of birth control that is designed to be taken orally by women. It is the oral form of combined hormonal contraception. The pill contains two…
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