The hormone responsible, insulin, was not discovered until Frederick Sanger sequenced it in 1953.

At its peak of popularity eugenics was supported by a wide variety of prominent people, including Winston Churchill, Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling and Sidney Webb.

Margaret Higgins Sanger ( September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966 ) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse.

Margaret Sanger was born as Margaret Higgins in Corning, New York.

Sanger was the sixth of eleven children, and spent much of her youth assisting with household chores and caring for her younger siblings.

Searching for something that would help these women, Sanger visited public libraries, but was unable to find information on contraception.

These problems were epitomized in a story that Sanger would later recount in her speeches: while Sanger was working as a nurse, she was called to Sadie Sachs ' apartment after Sachs had become extremely ill due to a self-induced abortion.

A few months later, Sanger was once again called back to the Sachs ' apartment — only this time, Sadie was found dead after yet another self-induced abortion.

" Although Sadie Sachs was possibly a fictional composite of several women Sanger had known, this story marks the time when Sanger began to devote her life to help desperate women before they were driven to pursue dangerous and illegal abortions.

Sanger was indicted in August 1914 on three counts of violating obscenity laws and a fourth count of " inciting murder and assassination ".

Nine days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for breaking a New York state law that prohibited distribution of contraceptives, and went to trial in January 1917.

Sanger was convicted ; the trial judge held that women did not have " the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception.

Sanger became estranged from her husband in 1913, and the couple's divorce was finalized in 1921.

After Sanger discovered that physicians were exempt from the law that prohibited the distribution of contraceptive information to women — provided it was prescribed for medical reasons — she established the Clinical Research Bureau ( CRB ) in 1923 to exploit this loophole.

The first protein to be sequenced was insulin, by Frederick Sanger, in 1949.

The Tasmanian devil's genome was sequenced in 2010 by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

In 1979, Gilbert was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Frederick Sanger.

Gilbert was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Frederick Sanger and Paul Berg.

During the early 20th century, prominent feminist and birth control advocate Margaret Sanger argued that abstinence from sexual activity led to greater endurance and strength, and was a sign of the best of the species:

Noted attorney Clarence Darrow offered to defend Sanger free of charge, but, bowing to public pressure, the government dropped the charges in early 1916.

Sanger felt that in order for women to have a more equal footing in society and to lead healthier lives, they needed to be able to determine when to bear children.

Sanger, collaborating with anarchist friends, coined the term " birth control " as a more candid alternative to euphemisms such as " family limitation " and proclaimed that each woman should be " the absolute mistress of her own body.

Some countries in northwestern Europe had more liberal policies towards contraception than the United States at the time, and when Sanger visited a Dutch birth control clinic in 1915, she learned about diaphragms and became convinced that they were a more effective means of contraception than the suppositories and douches that she had been distributing back in the United States.

The racial makeup of Sanger was 14, 454 ( 59. 6 %) White, 219 ( 0. 9 %) African American, 311 ( 1. 3 %) Native American, 758 ( 3. 1 %) Asian, 39 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 7, 645 ( 31. 5 %) from other races, and 844 ( 3. 5 %) from two or more races.

In the early 1960s, Sukarno went on to marry 4 more wives: Kartini Manoppo ; Yurike Sanger ; Heldy Djafar ; Amelia de la Rama.

In the following years, Shidzue brought Sanger to Japan six more times.

Riley and Sanger think they will find evidence that Gray was a prosecutor on a rigged 1968 case, which would be his motive to murder Quinn if she approached Gray about what she found.

Sanger also wanted to publish a book that directly described contraceptive options ( in contrast to the articles in The Woman Rebel which only indirectly discussed contraception ), so she gathered information, much of it from Europe, and published the pamphlet Family Limitation, in direct violation of the Comstock Law.

After World War I, Sanger shifted away from radical politics, and she founded the American Birth Control League ( ABCL ) in 1921 to enlarge her base of supporters to include the middle class.

In July 1915, she met Margaret Sanger, who had just given an address on birth control at a Fabian Society meeting.

Many socialist activists attacked Rockefeller for ordering the massacre at Ludlow, including Margaret Sanger, who wrote an attack on Rockefeller and his family in her magazine The Woman Rebel where she referred to Rockefeller and his family as " leering, bloody hyenas of the human race who smear themselves with the stinking honey of Charity to attract those foul flies of religion who spread pollution throughout the land.

Sanger, in her campaign to promote birth control, teamed with eugenics organizations such as the American Eugenics Society, although she argued against many of their positions.

While working with Catt, she met other social activists, including Mary Dennett and Margaret Sanger.

Throughout the 1920s McCormick worked with Sanger on birth control issues, McCormick smuggled diaphragms from Europe to New York City for Sanger's Clinical Research Bureau, and in 1927 she hosted a reception of delegates attending the 1927 World Population Conference at her home in Geneva.

May became aware of population issues in childhood, when she was introduced to Margaret Sanger by her grandmother.

After six years of marriage Smedley divorced and moved to New York City, where, among other new activities, she worked with Margaret Sanger at the Birth Control Review.

Turn-of-the-20th-century birth control advocate Margaret Sanger wrote in her autobiography of a 1912 incident in which she was summoned to treat a woman who had nearly died from such an attempt.

* 1922-Acted as a guide to American feminist Margaret Sanger, whom she had met while in New York in 1920.

Figuring that a key found on the victim's body has something to do with the Justice Department ( where Quinn worked ), Riley and Sanger break into the file department at the Justice Department late one night and try to find what the key unlocks.

Diaphragms were generally unavailable in the United States, so Sanger and others began importing them from Europe, in defiance of United States law.

In 1915, architect William Sanger was charged under the New York law against disseminating contraceptive information.

) There was also delinquent-turned-bodyguard / assistant Mark Sanger ( Don Mitchell ), who also opted to become a police officer and subsequently graduated from law school ( night classes were mentioned from early on ) and even married late in the run of the series.

In a law library, Riley and Sanger narrowly avoid being caught by Judge Helms, who sequesters the jury to avoid any possible further contact between Riley and the juror.

In the 1930s, Margaret Sanger and the National Committee for Federal Legislation on Birth Control lobbied Congress to revise this law, but were unsuccessful.