Min Chueh Chang
Min Chueh Chang ( Chinese 張明 覺 / 张明 觉 , Pinyin Zhāng Míngjué ; born October 10, 1908 in Taiyuan , Shanxi , Chinese Empire ; † June 5, 1991 in Shrewsbury , Massachusetts ) was a Chinese - American biologist .
Life
Chang studied animal psychology at Tsinghua University in Beijing and at the University of Cambridge in England. In Cambridge he joined Arthur Walton's research team and was engaged in research on sperm . After he achieved his doctorate in Cambridge, he moved to Yale University in the United States, where he met Isabelle Chin and married. He had three children with his wife.
In 1945 he learned the process of in vitro fertilization with Gregory Pincus in Worcester at the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research . It was there that he and Pincus carried out the fundamental research into developing the birth control pill .
Awards
- Albert Lasker Award , presented by Planned Parenthood - World Population 1954
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1956
- Ortho Medal , awarded by the American Fertility Society in 1961
- Carl G. Hartman Award , given by the Society for the Study of Reproduction 1970
- Francis Amory Prize , awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1975
- Wippman Scientific Research Award , presented by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1987
- Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1990
Web links
- MC Chang: Recollections of 40 years at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology. In: The Physiologist. Volume 28, Number 5, October 1985, pp. 400-401, ISSN 0031-9376 . PMID 3906690 .
- National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir (PDF; 177 kB)
- TheNationalAcademyPress: Min Chueh Chang
Individual evidence
- ^ Prior Awards , The Lasker Foundation
- ↑ Carl G. Hartman Award ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Society for the Study of Reproduction
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| SURNAME | Chang, Min Chueh |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Taiyuan , Shanxi |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 5, 1991 |
| Place of death | Shrewsbury , Massachusetts |