FYI - official website, library catalog records, obituaries, two
online videos, plus a link to a Renga article published in Nature.
He was an amazing person. GB
Dr. Djerassi's website
http://www.djerassi.com
Stanford Libraries catalog - Carl Djerassi as author/faculty
advisor
http://stanford.io/1vt6fj5
Obituaries
Carl Djerassi, Stanford professor and world-renowned chemist, dead
at 91
Stanford Report, January 31, 2015
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/january/carl-djerassi-obituary-013115.html
[Obit] Scientist considered father of birth control pill dies. [Carl
Djerassi was a professor emeritus of chemistry.] (Associated Press
via New York Times, Sat, 1/31/15)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/01/31/us/ap-us-obit-carl-djerassi.html
[Obit] Carl Djerassi. (The Guardian, Sun, 2/1/15)
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/01/carl-djerassi
Carl Djerassi, the man who helped develop 'the pill', dies at 91.
(Reuters, Sat, 1/31/15)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/31/us-people-djerassi-idUSKBN0L40SA20150131
Online videos
Stanford Pioneers In Science > Carl Djerassi (recorded in 2009)
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9702852
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qr384zb7234/SC0938_b3_Djerassi_2009.m4v
Carl Djerassi: Beyond Chemistry, The Last 25 Years of a Nonagenarian
http://purl.stanford.edu/mk102xv1337
A celebration of Carl Djerassi's 90th Birthday Year. Stanford
Chemistry Department. Special Event held Jan 30, 2014.
Renga article article published in Nature
Below is the full-text link to the "renga" article Dr. Djerassi
mentioned in his presentation "Beyond Chemistry, The Last 25 Years
of a Nonagenarian." (This article was a linked poem created by
students taking a biomedical ethics class he taught at Stanford.)
I'm also including a link to the Academy of American Poets website
that has a definition for renga.
A science renga
Alfred N. Aldston, Jr, Dina L. G. Borzekowski, Jonathan A. Eisen,
Sheri L. Fink3, E. Weber Hoen, Dean Y. Hung, Shirley Lin, Cynthia T.
M. H. Nguyen, Julie E. Phillips, Michelle Stohlmeyer, Cenk Sumen,
Craig A. Swanson, Noriko Takiguchi1, Yvonne Thorstenson &
Harriet A. Washington
Nature 393, 512-513 (11 June 1998) | doi:10.1038/31091
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v393/n6685/full/393512a0.html
Poetic Form: Renga
"Renga, meaning "linked poem," began over seven hundred years ago in
Japan to encourage the collaborative composition of poems. Poets
worked in pairs or small groups, taking turns composing the
alternating three-line and two-line stanzas. Linked together, renga
were often hundreds of lines long, though the favored length was a
36-line form called a kasen. Several centuries after its inception,
the opening stanza of renga gave rise to the much shorter haiku."
Read the rest of the definition at:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5788
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