(1883-1966) US health reformer and crusader for birth control. In 1914 she founded the National Birth Control League. She founded and presided over the American Birth Control League 1921–28, the organization that later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation 1952.
Sanger was born in Corning, New York; she received nursing degrees from White Plains Hospital and the Manhattan Eye and Ear Clinic. As a nurse, she saw the deaths and deformity caused by self-induced abortions and became committed to providing health and birth-control education to the poor. In 1917 she was briefly sent to prison for opening a public birth-control clinic in Brooklyn 1916.
Her Autobiography appeared 1938.

(1918-) English biochemist, the winner of two Nobel Prizes for Chemistry: one for his clarifying the structure of insulin, and the other, with two US scientists, for his work on the chemical structure of genes.

1. City in California (USA); zip code 93657.
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