Editing Carl Djerassi (section)

==Education==
Djerassi started his college career at Newark Junior College after moving to the United States with his mother when he was 16. He previously had attended the [[American College of Sofia]], a high school in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he became fluent in English. Because of the name of his high school, he was misunderstood and enrolled into Newark Junior College before graduating high school. After a year at Newark Junior College, Djerassi wrote a letter to First Lady [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] asking for help with a room and board and tuition scholarship to a four-year college. He received a response from the [[Institute of International Education]] with a full scholarship to [[Tarkio College]] where he briefly attended, and then studied chemistry at [[Kenyon College]], where he graduated ''[[Latin honors#Types|summa cum laude]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Conversation with Carl Djerassi |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVL8FKitRLM |website=Youtube.com | date=13 April 2012 |publisher=Annual Reviews |access-date=2022-03-27}}</ref><ref name="OH">{{cite web|author=Center for Oral History| title= Carl Djerassi |url=https://oh.sciencehistory.org/oral-histories/djerassi-carl|website= [[Science History Institute]] }}</ref><ref name=CHFOralHistory>{{cite book|first1= Jeffrey L. |last1=Sturchio|first2= Arnold |last2=Thackray |title=Carl Djerassi, Transcript of an Interview Conducted by Jeffrey L. Sturchio and Arnold Thackray at Stanford University on July 31, 1985 |date=July 31, 1985 |url=https://oh.sciencehistory.org/sites/default/files/djerassi_c_0017_suppl.pdf|place=Philadelphia, PA|publisher=[[Science History Institute|Center for History of Chemistry]] }}</ref> After one year at [[Novartis|CIBA]], he moved to the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] where he earned his PhD in organic chemistry in 1945.<ref name=Weintraub /> His thesis work examined the transformation of the male sex hormone [[testosterone]] into the female sex hormone [[estradiol]], through a sequence of chemical reactions.<ref name=CHFJMD>{{cite web|title=Carl Djerassi|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/carl-djerassi|website=[[Science History Institute]]|access-date=February 21, 2018|date=June 2016}}</ref>