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English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918) United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood; she challenged Gregory Pincus to develop a birth control pill (1883-1966)
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| Sanger |
(1883-1966) US nurse in New York slums, where she was appalled at deaths of poor women from self-induced abortions. She coined the term birth control and founded National Birth Control League in 1914. When she opened a birth-control clinic in Brooklyn in 1916, she was arrested for creating a public nuisance. Her struggle with the law dramatized her cause and won doctors the right to dispense birth-control information to their patients. ...
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| Sanger Brown a. |
former name for a type of olivopontocerebellar atrophy, now considered to be a type of Friedreich's ataxia.
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