Dr. Luis Miramontes
The Mexican Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas was the inventor of the contraceptive pill in 1951 when he was only 25 years old.
Luis Miramontes was born on March 16, 1925, in Nayarit and died in Mexico City on September 13, 2004.
He studied high school at the National Preparatory School of UNAM and was a researcher, co-founder of the Chemistry Institute of the same University, conducting research in the area of Organic Chemistry. He was a professor at the Faculty of Chemistry of the UNAM, director and professor of the School of Chemistry of the Ibero-American University and deputy director of basic research of the Mexican Institute of
Oil (IMP).
In October 1951, when he was doing his thesis work in the Syntex laboratory, he carried out a feat he had been pursuing for some time, together with the director of his thesis, Carl Djerassi, who was synthesizing the first female oral contraceptive, based on steroids.