Min Chueh Chang

Min Chueh Chang ( born October 10, 1908 in Taiyuan, Shanxi, † 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. At Cambridge, he arrived in the research team of Arthur Walton and focused on research of the sperm. After he achieved his doctorate at Cambridge, he moved to Yale University in the United States, where he met and married Isabelle Chin. With his wife he had three children.

In 1945 he learned the process of in vitro fertilization with Gregory Pincus in Worcester at the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research. There Pincus and get him the basic research to the development of the contraceptive pill.

Awards

  • Albert Lasker Award, awarded by the Lasker Foundation in 1954
  • Ortho Medal, awarded by the American Fertility Society 1961
  • Carl G. Hartman Award, awarded by the Society for the Study of Reproduction 1970
  • Francis Amory Prize, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1975
  • Wippman Scientific Research Award, awarded by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1987
  • Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences 1990
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