The family home of Percy Lavon Julian sits on a corner lot in the Oak Park suburb of Chicago. Julian was already a renowned organic chemist when he bought the two-story stone house in 1950.

Julian was only the third African-American in the United States to hold a Ph.D. in chemistry. The fire chief said that the Julian family ... tree with a shotgun and explaining why to his son ...

Just before the turn of the century, Percy Lavon Julian was born in Montgomery ... by Upjohn Company since 1961). In 1951, Julian and his family moved to Oak Park, Illinois, becoming the first ...

When he moved here in around 1950, his family was one of the ... sometimes from a nearby tree." Read more here. The founder of research laboratories in the United States, Mexico, and Guatemala, Percy ...

Friday's Google Doodle honors the life of Percy Lavon Julian who would've celebrated his 115th birthday today, April 11, 2014. Many honor this African American research chemist, who was a pioneer ...

Percy Lavon Julian, born in Montgomery, Alabama, was a renowned research chemist with over 130 patents. His groundbreaking work included synthesizing steroids from plants, improving paint formulas ...

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.

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 ...

The 1993 U.S. stamp program will get under way Jan. 29 with a Black Heritage Series commemorative honoring chemist Percy Lavon Julian. It will be issued in Chicago, Ill. Here is the rest of the ...

Just before the turn of the century, Percy Lavon Julian was born in Montgomery ... by Upjohn Company since 1961). In 1951, Julian and his family moved to Oak Park, Illinois, becoming the first ...