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I'm absolutely convinced that the pleasure of a real scientific insight—it doesn't have to be a great discovery—is like an orgasm.

Carl Djerassi

Seminar is not yet officially a transitive verb. Still, most graduate students in any large research-oriented university have at times felt themselves more the helpless objects of a seminar than its active participants. Seminared into numbness describes that feeling of oversaturation.

Carl Djerassi

Carl Djerassi

Carl Djerassi

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Born: October 29, 1923

Died: January 30, 2015 (aged 91)

Bio: Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of oral contraceptive pills.

Known for:

Cantor's Dilemma (1989)
The Bourbaki Gambit (1994)
Menachem's Seed (1997)
The pill, pygmy chimps, and Degas' horse (1992)
Four Jews on Parnassus (2008)

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