What Mexican chemist is credited with inventing progestin norethisterone, a medication used in the first oral contraceptive in 1951?

Mexican scientist Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cardenas is credited for inventing the progestin norethisterone, which was used in the first oral contraceptive. The US Department of Patents selected the contraceptive pill as one of the 40 most significant innovational between 1794 and 1964.

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