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Edgar Allen identified and outlined the role of female sex hormones [2] and discovered estrogen [3] in the early 1900s in the US. In 1923, Allen, through his research with mice, isolated the primary ovarian hormone [4], later renamed estrogen [3], from ovarian follicles and tested its effect through injections in the uterine tissues of mice. Allen's work on estrogen [3], enabled researchers to ...