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Rose Epstein Frisch (born Rose Epstein; July 7, 1918 – January 30, 2015) was a pioneering American scientist in fertility and human development whose work was instrumental in the discovery of leptin. She researched infertility and discovered that low body fat is a contributing factor to infertility.
February 13, 2015 — Rose Epstein Frisch, an associate professor emerita of population sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a pioneer in elucidating the biological mechanisms of fertility and cancer in women, died January 30, 2015 in Cambridge, Mass.
Feb 13, 2015 · Dr. Rose Epstein Frisch was a scientific pioneer during the Cold War, in an era and in a field best known for its sexist discrimination across the board, in both policies and culture. Frisch’s work essentially transformed how science understands and studies the biological mechanisms of fertility.
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Feb 12, 2015 · Rose E. Frisch, a scientist whose influential work showed that women without enough body fat would have trouble becoming pregnant, but that they also had a lower risk of breast cancer, died on...
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Feb 5, 2012 · A former top executive at Time, Inc, passed away peacefully on February 3, 2012, following a long illness. Born on July 10, 1923, Rose grew up in Queens and graduated from City College. She took...
Apr 22, 2024 · Scientist who linked body fat to fertility. 46 Cape Bial Lane. Born in the Bronx, Rose was fascinated from an early age by discoveries of Louis Pasteur and other scientists. She attended Smith College and, following her marriage to Princeton physics graduate David Frisch, earned a doctorate in genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
