George Rosenkranz

Jewish Hungarian Mexican chemist and executive, bridge player and writer

George Rosenkranz (born György Rosenkranz; 20 August 1916 – 23 June 2019)[2] was a Hungarian-born Mexican scientist in the field of steroid chemistry. He used native Mexican plant sources as raw materials.[3] He was born in Hungary, studied in Switzerland and emigrated to the Americas to escape the Nazis, eventually settling in Mexico.[3][4]

George Rosenkranz
George Rosenkranz receiving the Biotechnology Heritage Award in Chicago, 2013
Born(1916-08-20)20 August 1916
Died23 June 2019(2019-06-23) (aged 102)
NationalityMexican[1]
Known forSynthesis of norethisterone, the first orally highly active progestin, used in one of the first oral contraceptive pills
Scientific career
FieldsChemist

Rosenkranz died on 23 June 2019 in Atherton, California, United States. He was 102.[5]

References

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  1. "La píldora anticonceptiva, ¿es de 'padres' mexicanos?". Excélsior. 9 March 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2015. Rosenkranz se nacionalizó mexicano, siguió trabajando en Syntex por muchos años, actualmente vive en México y tiene 98 años.
  2. "George Rosenkranz (Oral History)". Chemical Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original on 14 August 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Ness, Roberta B. (2013). Genius unmasked. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 9780199976591.
  4. Cohen, Gerald S. (2002). "Mexico's Pill Pioneer". Perspectives in Health Magazine: The Magazine of the Pan American Health Organization. 7 (1). Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  5. The New York Times (23 June 2019). "George Rosenkranz, a Developer of the Birth Control Pill, Dies at 102". The New York Times.