Today's Google Doodle commemorates the 115th birthday of Percy Lavon Julian ... feat one of the 25 top accomplishments in the history of American chemistry. In 1936, Julian left academia to ...

This time it's celebrating the birthday of the noted African-American chemist Percy Lavon Julian, who would have ... and he had the accomplishments to back up his induction, having pioneered ...

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 ...

Percy Lavon Julian was born in 1899 ... the American Chemical Society as one of the 25 greatest chemical research accomplishments in the nation’s history. Still unable to land a job as ...

RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AWARDING DR. PERCY LAVON JULIAN POSTHUMOUS FACULTY STATUS ... as well as his outstanding teaching and scholarly accomplishments, clearly merited a faculty ...

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 ...

Their accomplishments remembered by only a few ... The first forgotten face we explore is Percy Julian. He was a chemist, a father, and a businessman, all during a time of Jim Crow Laws.

Percy Lavon Julian was fascinated by plants from an early age; he became America’s soybean expert. Grandson of slaves who became only second black elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

A videographer for the PBS program NOVA is on the DePauw University campus today, collecting footage for an upcoming two-hour documentary on the legendary chemist and 1920 DePauw University graduate ...

He hadn’t even moved into the spacious house on North East Avenue when Percy Lavon Julian got an unmistakable message that someone didn’t want the internationally renowned scientist living in ...

Today’s Google Doodle honors what would have been the 115th birthday of Percy Lavon Julian, a pioneering chemist who overcame the obstacles of segregation to ascend to international notoriety.

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 ...