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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.
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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 12, 2015 · Feb. 11, 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...
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.
Feb 12, 2015 · Longtime Pop Center scientist Rose Frisch passed away on January 30th at age 96. She will be fondly remembered and deeply missed. Learn more about her contribution to women’s fertility issues in this Harvard Chan School featured news story. Her obituary appeared in yesterday’s New York Times.
Feb 12, 2015 · Rose E. Frisch, a scientist whose work showed that women without enough body fat would have trouble becoming pregnant but also had a lower risk of breast cancer, died Jan. 30 at an assisted-living ...
Rose Epstein Frisch (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 is mainly known for her work in infertility; specifically the discovery that low body fat was a contributing factor to infertility. Oops something went wrong: 403.
