When birth control advocate Margaret Sanger asked Gregory Pincus to come up with a birth control pill, he knew one of the hardest parts of the process would be the large-scale human trials ...

The woman was Margaret Sanger, one of the legendary crusaders of the twentieth century. The man was Gregory Goodwin Pincus, a scientist with a genius IQ and a dubious reputation.

In the early 1950s, nurse and activist Margaret Sanger met with researcher Gregory Pincus to begin a decade-long quest to transform birth control. With the help of Katharine McCormick, a wealthy ...

“Margaret Sanger approached Dr. Pincus at a Manhattan dinner party, and she was very taken with him,” said Thoru Pederson, a University of Massachusetts Medical School professor who headed the ...

Less than a decade after birth control activist Margaret Sanger first told scientist Gregory Pincus about her hopes for a "magic pill," it appeared that success was imminent.

When Pincus met the feminist crusader Margaret Sanger in 1950 and she implored him to go to work on the development of a birth-control pill, he knew the project carried enormous risk.

From beginning to end, the book's narrative drive never ceases. In the first chapter, Sanger convinces Pincus to begin work on a contraceptive pill despite the pitiful amount of funding she offers.

In his telling, this transformation is thanks to a unique alliance between feminists and scientists: the spotlight-seeking activist Margaret Sanger, the rebel researcher Goody Pincus, the single ...

At that party, Sanger — who would supply the motivation and momentum to support the contraceptive’s development — met Gregory Pincus, one of the scientists who would create it.

Sanger, founder of the group that would become Planned Parenthood, convinced philanthropist Katharine McCormick to bankroll the work of Gregory Pincus, the scientist who developed the pill.

But in 1950, birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger met Pincus at a Manhattan dinner party and later brought the philanthropist Katharine McCormick to Shrewsbury to meet him.