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 ...

Percy Lavon Julian, a young, Black scientist working in Jim Crow America, gained international recognition after beating chemists at the University of Oxford in the race to synthesize the alkaloid ...

Just before the turn of the century, Percy Lavon Julian was born in Montgomery, Alabama. He was a bright student, but at that time the city provided no public education for black students after ...

Born the grandson of Alabama slaves during segregation in 1899 and facing a lifetime of personal and professional challenges, Percy Lavon Julian nevertheless ... this forgotten chemist's most ...

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), ...