George W. Corner
George Washington Corner FRS FRSE (12 December 1889 – 28 September 1981) was an American physician, embryologist and pioneer of the contraceptive pill. He received an outstanding ten honorary degrees from various universities. He played a critical role in the discovery of progesterone. He was described as both a medical historian and a humanist.He was the person responsible for educating a number of persons important in the world of sexual health, including: William Masters, Mary Calderone and Alan Frank Guttmacher. As such he can be viewed as the grandfather of sexual health and contraception in America. Mary Calderone, in particular, acknowledged a huge debt to Corner in allowing her onto the medical course at Rochester.
His name (along with Willard Myron Allen) attaches to two medical terms: the Corner-Allen Test (for progestation) and the Corner-Allen Unit (a unit of progestational activity in rabbits). Provided by Wikipedia
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The hormones in human reproduction
Princeton, London, Princeton University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1942Format: Book
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Anatomist at large; an autobiography, and selected essays.
Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press 1969Format: Book
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Attaining manhood; a doctor talks to boys about sex.
New York, Harper 1952
2d ed., rev. and enl.Format: Book
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Attaining manhood; a doctor talks to boys about sex.
New York, London, Harper & brothers, 1938Format: Book
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Ourselves unborn; an embryologist's essay on man,
New Haven, Yale University Press, 1944Format: Book
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The autobiography of Benjamin Rush; his Travels through life together with his Commonplace book for 1789-1813.
Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press 1970Other Authors:Format: Book
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Progesterone and the defence mechanism of pregnancy.
Boston, Little, Brown 1961Other Authors:Format: Conference Proceeding Book