Percy Julian: The Chemist Who Made Medicine from Beans
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Born in segregated Montgomery in 1899, the grandson of enslaved people, Percy Lavon Julian became one of the finest organic chemists America ever produced. Barred from the doctorate he had earned and refused a professorship because of his race, he found his laboratory in industry instead - and there he changed medicine. From the humble soybean and the wild Mexican yam he learned to build precious drugs: the glaucoma treatment physostigmine, hormones once worth more than gold, and cortisone made affordable at last. He held well over a hundred patents, helped create a soy foam that fought fire at sea, and integrated his Oak Park home under firebombs. This is the true story of a "forgotten genius" - separating documented fact from tidy legend.
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Born in segregated Montgomery in 1899, the grandson of enslaved people, Percy Lavon Julian became one of the finest organic chemists America ever produced. Barred from the doctorate he had earned and refused a professorship because of his race, he found his laboratory in industry instead - and there he changed medicine. From the humble soybean and the wild Mexican yam he learned to build precious drugs: the glaucoma treatment physostigmine, hormones once worth more than gold, and cortisone made affordable at last. He held well over a hundred patents, helped create a soy foam that fought fire at sea, and integrated his Oak Park home under firebombs. This is the true story of a "forgotten genius" - separating documented fact from tidy legend.
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