Carl Djerassi: Vienna's Lost Son (2008)

Eberhard Büssem portrays Carl Djerassi, an Austro-American chemist, author and art collector, who was born in 1923 in Vienna to an Ashkenazi mother and a Sephardic father. In 1938, he fled to his father to Bulgaria, later Carl and his mother immigrated to the USA. He is one of the few American scientists to have been awarded both the National Medal of Science (for the first synthesis of a steroid oral contraceptive-"the Pill") and the National Medal of Technology (for promoting new approaches to insect control).