Maurice Harold Friedman (October 27, 1903 – March 8, 1991) was an American physician and reproductive-physiology researcher. He is known for the development of the

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, a pregnancy test developed in 1931 while he was teaching at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Biography

Friedman was born on October 27, 1903, in

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, United States. Aged 16, he entered the

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and was awarded a bachelor's degree and doctorates, both in physiology and medicine. From 1928, he taught at the

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in physiology. He moved to Washington in 1936 and joined the

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and held roles at the

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and the

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. He gained employment at the

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, where he continued with his research in reproductive physiology. He retired from medical work in 1959 and joined the Planned Parenthood, Children's House and the Social Hygiene Society, where he worked as a financial advisor. Friedman died of cancer after a long illness on March 8, 1991, at his home in

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Selected publications

References

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