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Who was a famous scientist that made a significant contribution to the advancement of science?

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Who was a famous scientist that made a significant contribution to the advancement of science?

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Percy Lavon Julian was one of many famous scientists who made a significant contribution to the advancement of science.

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This is a picture of Percy explaining chem.

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Percy Lavon Julian was born on April 11, 1899, in Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. and died on April 19, 1975, in Waukegan, Illinois.

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He attended school through the eighth grade but there were no high schools open to Black students.

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He applied to DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where he had to take high school-level classes in the evening to get him up to the academic level of his peers. In spite of this challenging beginning, he graduated first in his class, with Phi Beta Kappa honors.

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Fisk University where Julian got accepted into

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After college, Julian accepted a position as a chemistry instructor at Fisk University.

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A example of how discrimination was back then.

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Percy Julian overcame racial discrimination to emerge as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.

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Dr. Percy Lavon Julian was an African American chemist who is most well known for extracting medicinal drugs from plants.

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Julian met his wife, Anna Roselle, while employed at Howard University, and the two were accused of having an affair while she was married to one of his colleagues.

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Percy Earned a master's degree in chemistry from Harvard University in 1923.

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This is an example to what synthetic chemistry.

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Julian specialized in synthetic chemistry, the creation of natural and new substances from the most basic chemicals.

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Dr. Julian involved himself in the movement for civic and social equality, receiving the NAACP's Springarn Medal in 1947.

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In 1973, Julian became the first Black chemist elected to the National Academy of the Sciences.

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How the National Inventors Hall of Fame Appears like.

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In 1990, he was elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame and in 1999 his synthesis of physostigmine was recognized by the American Chemical Society as “one of the top 25 achievements in the history of American chemistry.”

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This is a page of the such paper that appeared in the Journal

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One such paper appeared in the April 1935 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. This paper, entitled "Studies in the Indole Series V. The Complete Synthesis of Physostigmine (Eserine)."

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His research at academic and corporate institutions led to the chemical synthesis of drugs to treat glaucoma and arthritis.

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This is Lavon showing the invention of Aero-Foam. 

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While with his biomedical work he also invented Aero-Foam, a product that uses soy protein to put out oil and gas fires and was widely used in World War II, as well as other soybean-based inventions.

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Julian continued his biomedical work as well and discovered how to extract sterols from soybean oil and synthesize the hormones progesterone and testosterone.

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In the 1930s chemists recognized the structural similarity of a large group of natural substances—the steroids.

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African American chemist Percy Julian was a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs such as cortisone, steroids, and birth control pills to help discover new things.

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This is Lavon at his lab that he established.

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Julian left Glidden in 1953 and established his own laboratory, Julian Laboratories, in 1954. He sold the company in 1961, becoming one of the first Black millionaires, before founding Julian Research Institute, a nonprofit organization that he ran for the rest of his life.

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Julian’s life was the subject of a documentary film made for PBS’s Nova series, entitled Forgotten Genius.

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NOVA | Forgotten Genius | Season 34 | Episode 3

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Season 34 Episode 3 | 1h 52m 42s | The grandson of Alabama slaves, Percy Julian met with every possible barrier in a deeply segregated America. He was a man of genius, devotion, and determination.

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https://www.biography.com/scientist/percy-julian

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/julian.html

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/julian.html