French scientist Etienne-Emile Bolio, inventor of the abortion pill, died at the age of 98 at his home in Paris.
The doctor and researcher, who achieved international fame for his work, which led to birth control pills, was a life full of events that included fighting in the French resistance and became friends with artists like Andy Warhol.
“His research was guided by his commitment to the progress made by science, his dedication to women’s freedom, and his desire to enable everyone to live better, a longer life,” said Polio’s wife, Simon Huari, Polio, on Friday.
The discovery of the most famous Bau-486 is also known as RU-486, known as the name MivorstonWho provided a safe and inexpensive alternative to surgical abortion of millions of women all over the world.
For decades, governments have prompted drug delegation, facing fierce criticism and sometimes threats from abortion opponents.
When Wyoming became the first American country to ban abortion pills in 2023, he told a Polio to Agence France -Presse that he was a “scandal”.
Then he is 96 years old, Polio said he devoted a large part of his life to “increase the freedom of women”, and this ban was a step in the wrong direction.
On the news of his death, the French Minister of Equality, Auror Berg, conveyed her condolences to the Bollyu family, saying that he was “directed throughout his life with one requirements: human dignity.”
He was born on December 12, 1926 in Strasbourg for Jewish Fathers, and his feminist mother was originally originally originally originally armed with his father.
He changed his name to Emile Bolio when he joined the French resistance against the Nazi occupation at the age of 15, and later added étienne.
After the war, “Doctor is the Science”, a specialist in steroid hormones.
Baulieu was invited in 1961 by Gregory Pincus in 1961 Known as the father of the pillThose who persuade him to focus on sex hormones.
Again in FranceBAULIEU designed a way to prevent the effect of the hormone progesterone, which is necessary for the egg to implant in the womb after fertilization. This led to the development of MivePristone in 1982.
He was withdrawn in front of the courts and clarified by anti -abortion groups that accused him of inventing the “diet”, Polio refused to decline.
“The adversity slip like water from the back of the duck,” Simon Harari Polio told AFP.
French President Emmanuel Macron said in 2023: “I was drowning in the most terrible insults, and even compared to Nazi scientists,” in 2023, “French President Emmanuel Macron said in 2023.
In the sixties of the last century, Bauulieu’s literary fan has become a friend of artists such as Andy Warhol.
He said that “fascinated by artists who claim to have the human spirit, which will remain forever away from the reach of scholars.”
Polio continued to go to his Parisian office in the mid -1990s. He said in 2023: “I will get bored if I don’t work anymore,” he said in 2023.
His recent research included an attempt to find a way to prevent the development of Alzheimer’s disease, as well as a treatment for severe depression, which conducted clinical trials around the world.
“There is no reason that we could not find treatments,” he said.
Baulieu was also the first to describe how the hormone DHEA was secreted from the adrenal glands in 1963.
He was convinced of the capabilities of anti -aging hormones, but the medications that they use had limited effects only, as in creams indicating the skin.
In the United States, Baulieu also won the prestigious Lasker Award in 1989.
After his first wife, Yolandi Companeon, died, Polio of Simon Harrarie married in 2016.
He leaves three children, eight grandchildren and nine grandchildren, according to the statement issued by his family.
