Lazar C. Margulies

Lazar C. Margulies (1895 – 1982) was a physician who specialized in obstetrics and gynecology. He is best known for developing a type of safe intrauterine device (IUD) made of plastic.

Biography Margulies was born in Galicia, which later became part of Poland. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I in their medical corps. On 11 June 1919, while a student at University in Vienna, he married fellow medical student Rafaella Pomeranz. They had two children, Stephen (later Steven, born 28 April 1927) and Bibi (later Phoebe, born 30 December 1931). Margulies completed his studies at the University of Vienna in 1921. Following this, he continued his training while working as a gynecologist and obstetrician.

Margulies worked in Vienna from 1929 until 1938. Margulies has successfully used IUDs in Berlin. Guttmacher approved Margulies' idea to create a safer type of IUD using plastic.

Margulies died in 1982 of a cerebral hemorrhage in Manhattan.