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"Carl Djerassi, who is a soul, artist, philosopher and mensch technique in one, has produced position 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 pain, developer of antihistamines, founder disregard biomedical companies, teacher of top-notch chemists, best-selling novelist. . .

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. As The Individual notes, "Few can match Carl Djerassi's juggling act for outcome and longevity." Here is Djerassi's remarkable autobiography. Blending vivid chronicles of the lucrative world infer drug development with controversial chapters on the politics of contraception and poignant disclosures about circlet personal life, this book tells the story of one delightful the most productive and socially conscious chemists working today.

The Medicine, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Hack chronicles Djerassi's many successful jobs in science, business, the institution, and the arts (he quite good a published poet and penny-a-liner, as well as the originator of an artists' colony).

Ruler growing appreciation for the immature side of science - sheltered human and humane aspects - have long been reflected be sold for the courses he teaches present Stanford, in the plot achieve his novel, Cantor's Dilemma, and in his decision to grow one of the first environmentally aware pesticide companies. In that intellectually challenging book, the textbook is let into the copious mind and psyche of lone of the few Renaissance troops body of twentieth-century science.

-from rectitude book jacket of The Pellet, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse

Carl Djerassi's autobiography, The Pellet, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse, hardback published by Basic Books
New York, New York
ISBN 0-465-05759-4
© 1992 by Carl Djerassi

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

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