A Good Man: Gregory Goodwin Pincus, by Leon Speroff (2009), Arnica Publishing Inc. Thoru Pederson 1 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA 1 Correspondence: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 377 Plantation St., Worcester, MA 01605, USA. E-mail: thoru.pederson@umassmed.edu in a controversial 1987 book (1) ⇓ , the historian Michael Hart listed, in order of decreasing impact, the people who have influenced the most lives throughout civilization. The top entry, Muhammad, surprised many at first blush but not after reflecting on the cumulative numbers of people influenced. Isaac Newton came in second, followed by Jesus. But then wandering down into 50th place and thereabouts, readers like me wondered how the author could be so statistically confident in the nuances and narrow niches behind his bold ordinal rankings. In any case, there at position 81 was Gregory Pincus, who led the development of the first oral contraceptive, i.e. the birth control pill. He was flanked above by John F. Kennedy. Perhaps some irony there. Pincus himself was not the lead story in most books in which he had previously appeared (2 ⇓ 3 ⇓ 4 ⇓
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A Good Man: Gregory Goodwin Pincus, by Leon Speroff (2009), Arnica Publishing Inc.
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