[ noun ] (chemistry,biochemistry) English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918)

[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 11158

[ noun ] (medicine,work) United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood; she challenged Gregory Pincus to develop a birth control pill (1883-1966)