Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas was a Mexican chemist known as co-inventor and the first to synthesize an oral contraceptive, progestin norethisterone.
Luis E. Miramontes c. 1953
George Rosenkranz (right) and Luis E. Miramontes (left), 2001 at the UNAM
Patent of the first oral contraceptive, elected to the USA Inventors Hall of Fame.
Luis E. Miramontes (right) with Nobel Laureate Mario Molina, ca. 1995
Tepic is the capital and largest city of the western Mexican state of Nayarit, as well as the seat of the Tepic Municipality.
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
View of the ruins of Jauja