Robert Benjamin Greenblatt

Robert Benjamin Greenblatt
Robert B. Greenblatt
Born1906 (1906)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died27 September 1987(1987-09-27) (aged 80–81)
United States
Alma materMcGill University
Known forDevelopment of oral contraceptive pill; clomiphene citrate
AwardsCrawford W. Long Memorial Medal; Legion of Honor
Scientific career
FieldsEndocrinology, Obstetrics and gynecology
InstitutionsMedical College of Georgia

Robert Benjamin Greenblatt (1906–1987) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher specializing in endocrinology who spent almost all of his career at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG); where he pioneered endocrinology as an independent discipline. He was especially known for his work in the development of the sequential oral contraceptive pill and the oral fertility pill.

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