E. Just, and blood bank pioneer Charles Drew, among others. But Percy Julian's story stood out. While he'd encountered the same racial obstacles all black scientists of his generation faced ...
In 1929, Percy Julian won the opportunity to pursue a dream he had held for more than a decade: a doctorate in chemistry. Funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, he enrolled at the ...
The challenger was Percy Lavon Julian, a young, Black chemist at DePauw University in Indiana. Born in 1899 in Alabama as the grandson of former slaves, Julian grew up under Jim Crow laws. He’d been ...
Total synthesis of physostigmine at DePauw's Minshall Lab, 1935 Developed soya phosphaticles, a widely used food supplement; fire-fighting foam made from soybean oil (called bean soup); and ...
Northwestern Engineering’s Guillermo A. Ameer has won the Percy L. Julian Award given by the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE), ...
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