George W. Corner

George Washington Corner FRS FRSE (12 December 1889 – 28 September 1981) was an American physician, embryologist and pioneer of the contraceptive pill.

Mary Calderone, in particular, acknowledged a huge debt to Corner in allowing her onto the medical course at Rochester.

[4] He was born in Baltimore in the United States on 12 December 1889 the son of George Washington Corner II, a local merchant, and his wife, Florence Evans.

He took up the role in Rochester in 1924, having spent the intervening period since 1923, working in Ernest Starling’s laboratory in England.

[8] He met Betsy Lyon Copping whilst volunteering at the Grenfell Medical Mission in Battle Harbor, Labrador, and married her in 1915.