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 went on to become one of the 20th ...

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 ...

The main office, reception area and meeting facilities for the Academic Affairs Department are located in the Percy Lavon Julian Science and Mathematics Center, accessible through door 131 from the ...