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[Dr. Gregory Pincus, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] – Vintage Wall Art

[Dr. Gregory Pincus, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] — historic photograph
[Dr. Gregory Pincus, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Gregory Pincus, the biologist who helped develop the first oral contraceptive, appears here in a straightforward head-and-shoulders study taken in 1961, the year the pill was approved for contraceptive use in the United States. Pincus, who co-founded the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Massachusetts, worked with John Rock and Min-Chueh Chang on the hormonal research that led to the drug, a collaboration that drew both praise and controversy. The plain, frontal pose gives the portrait the sober tone of a scientist's official likeness rather than a publicity image, which suits the subject's reputation as a careful, sometimes contentious researcher.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1961
SubjectsPincus, Gregory,--1903-1967.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,319 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-204702

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