Editing Carl Djerassi (section)

==Early life==
Carl Djerassi was born in [[Vienna]], Austria, but spent the first years of his infancy in [[Sofia, Bulgaria]], the home of his father, Samuel Djerassi, a dermatologist and specialist in sexually transmitted diseases.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11384755/Carl-Djerassi-father-of-the-Pill-obituary.html "Carl Djerassi, father of the Pill – obituary"], ''The Telegraph'', February 2, 2015.</ref><ref name=Weintraub>Weintraub, Bob. [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y_30HHlitenXG4rNMEtViLW1YbOOXy6a_OND_nD_5z-0tAjAjB-EyGT9PS-m/edit  "Pincus, Djerassi and Oral Contraceptives"], ''Chemistry in Israel'', Bulletin of the Israel Chemical Society. August 2005, pp. 47–50.</ref> His mother was Alice Friedmann, a Viennese dentist and physician. Both parents were [[History of the Jews in Europe|Jewish]].<ref name=nytobit/>

Following his parents' divorce, Djerassi and his mother moved to Vienna. Until the age of 14, he attended the same ''realgymnasium'' that [[Sigmund Freud]] had attended many years earlier;<ref name=GuardianInterview>{{cite news|last1=Wood|first1=Gaby|title=Father of the pill|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/apr/15/healthandwellbeing.features1|access-date=February 4, 2015|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=April 14, 2007}}</ref>  spending summers in Bulgaria with his father.<ref name=CHFOralHistory/>

Austria refused him citizenship and after the [[Anschluss]], his father briefly remarried his mother in 1938 to allow Carl and his mother to escape the [[Nazi]] regime and flee to Sofia, Bulgaria, where he lived with his father for a year.<ref name=nytobit/> [[The Holocaust in Bulgaria|Bulgaria]], although not immune to antisemitism, proved a safe haven, as the country managed to save its entire 48,000-strong Jewish population from deportation to Nazi concentration camps. During his time in Sofia, Djerassi attended the [[American College of Sofia]] where he became fluent in English.<ref name=CHFOralHistory/>

In December 1939, Djerassi arrived with his mother in the United States, nearly penniless. Djerassi's mother worked in a group practice in upstate New York.<ref name=nytobit/> In 1949, his father emigrated to the United States,<ref name=nytobit/> practiced in [[Pennsylvania]] and [[West Virginia]], and eventually retired near his son in [[San Francisco]], [[California]].