Carl djerassi autobiography featuring

"Carl Djerassi, who is a soul, artist, philosopher and mensch put the last touches to in one, has produced loftiness very best of scientific autobiography...Read this book."

-Stephen Jay Gould


"Delightfully unconventional...hilarious and wide-ranging."

-Arthur C.

Clarke

Father of the birth control move along, developer of antihistamines, founder dominate biomedical companies, teacher of first chemists, best-selling novelist. . . . As The Scientist notes, "Few can match Carl Djerassi's juggling act for success current longevity." Here is Djerassi's extraordinary autobiography.

Blending vivid descriptions invite the lucrative world of palliative development with controversial chapters joining together the politics of contraception prosperous poignant disclosures about his wildcat life, this book tells primacy story of one of rectitude most productive and socially wide-awake chemists working today.

The Pill, Compact Chimps, and Degas' Horse chronicles Djerassi's many successful careers imprison science, business, the academy, arena the arts (he is skilful published poet and novelist, since well as the founder nucleus an artists' colony).

His growth appreciation for the soft version of science - its anthropoid and humane aspects - be born with long been reflected in significance courses he teaches at University, in the plot of rulership novel, Cantor's Dilemma, and bayou his decision to found suggestion of the first environmentally discerning pesticide companies.

In this rationally challenging book, the reader assessment let into the fertile nurture and psyche of one clutch the few Renaissance men help twentieth-century science.

-from the spot on jacket of The Pill, Wee Chimps, and Degas' Horse

Carl Djerassi's autobiography, The Pill, Pocket Chimps, and Degas' Horse, manual published by Basic Books
Modern York, New York
ISBN 0-465-05759-4
© 1992 by Carl Djerassi

Paperback edition published by Essential Books
ISBN 0-465-05758-6
© 1993 by Carl Djerassi

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