#percy lavon julian

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You know when it comes to trans or hrt stuff, I've never seen anyone mention Percy Lavon Julian, who was a super smart chemist. I saw a drunk history about him a long time ago and I've always thought this guy was so cool

Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.[1] He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine and was a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol. His work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills.[2][3][4] From Wikipedia

This guy found out you can synthesize testosterone and progesterone out of soy beans and we never talk about him. He fought really hard to become a chemist, even having to leave the country to finish his schooling and get a PHD he's also played by Jordan Peele in the video

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Today In History

Percy Lavon Julian, chemist who held 138 patents and helped create drugs for treating arthritis and glaucoma [cortisone and physostigmine, (1935)] and Aero Foam, used to put out gas/oil fires in World War II, was born in Montgomery, Alabama on this date April 11, 1899.

Throughout his life he was socially active in groups seeking to advance conditions for African Americans, helping to found the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of Chicago and serving on the boards of several other organizations and universities.

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Dr. Percy Lavon Julian honored at MacMurry College

Two photographs of Dr. Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975) taken during a ceremony for the newly constructed chemistry building of MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois, named in his honor. This event took place during a two-day symposium attended by more than 100 scientists and educators on May 12 and 13th, 1972. The first image depicts Dr. Julian standing beneath a plaque paying tribute to his contributions to chemistry, medicine, and humanity. The second shows Julian holding a framed picture of the Percy Lavon Julian Hall of Chemistry.

Julian is internationally recognized for his pioneering research in the development of cortisone, sex hormones, soybean proteins, and firefighting foam. Over the course of his career, Julian received more than 130 chemical patents and in 1973, became the second African American, following David Blackwell (1919-2010), to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Image citation: MacMurray College. “Dr. Percy Lavon Julian Honored at MacMurray College,” May 13, 1972. Science History Institute. Philadelphia.

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Percy Lavon Julian was born on April 11, 1899. An American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine and was a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol. His work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills.

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Dr. Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was a research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. A native of Montgomery and grandson of slaves. His parents Elizabeth Lena Adams, a school teacher, and James Sumner Julian, a railroad mail clerk who loved mathematics, raised six children, all of whom pursued a college education.

After attending public school in Montgomery, he enrolled at DePauw University. He was named a member of the Sigma Xi honorary society and Phi Beta Kappa. He was selected as the class valedictorian upon his graduation in 1920.

He taught chemistry at Fisk University while earning an MA from Harvard University. He taught chemistry at West Virginia State College, and he became the chair of the chemistry department at Howard University. He was awarded a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation that allowed him to finally pursue his doctorate. He went to study at the University of Vienna, where he earned his Ph.D.

He returned to the chemistry department at Howard University, he was a research fellow at DePauw University, where he published several peer-reviewed articles in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. He became the Director of Research of the Soya Products Division at Glidden, where he was the first African American scientist. He developed an inexpensive process to prepare cortisone, which is used in the treatment of arthritis. He developed a flame retardant used by the Navy in WWII.

He established the Julian Laboratories, which produced steroid-containing compounds. He hired many African American scientists who shared his interest in a career in the scientific field. He sold Julian Laboratories for two million dollars.

He had over 100 peer-reviewed publications and 115 research patents. In 1973, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #omegapsiphi #sigmapiphi

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Oh man, I don’t have a gimmick! Uhhh… here, have the Wikipedia page for Percy Lavon Julian. Really interesting guy!

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US postage stamp, 1993 Scott #2746 “Percy Lavon Julian - Black Heritage”

Issued: January 29, 1993 in Chicago, IL Quantity: 105,000,000 Designer: Higgins Bond Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Lithographed, engraved) A research chemist known for his many contributions to science, Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975) joined other noted black Americans as part of the Black Heritage Series. Julian was one of the first African Americans to receive a doctorate in chemistry, and the first to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. A pioneer in chemical synthesis of drugs used in medicine, Julian developed synthetic physostigmine for glaucoma, cortisone for arthritis, and the female hormone progesterone. He also owned more than 100 chemical patents, many for products made from soybeans, including a soya protein used in fire extinguishers during World War II, and still used in paper manufacturing today.

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Rest in peace, Percy Lavon Julian.  One of the first African Americans to earn a doctorate, Julian was the first African American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (and the second overall, after statistician David Blackwell), honoring his pioneering work in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants, particularly the synthesis of steroids such as progesterone and testosterone.  He died on this date in 1975 at the age of 76.

Stamp details: Issued on: January 29, 1993 From: Chicago, IL SC #2746

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Today In History

Percy Lavon Julian, chemist who held 138 patents and helped create drugs for treating arthritis and glaucoma [cortisone and physostigmine, (1935)] and Aero Foam, used to put out gas/oil fires in World War II, was born in Montgomery, Alabama on this date April 11, 1899.

Throughout his life he was socially active in groups seeking to advance conditions for African Americans, helping to found the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of Chicago and serving on the boards of several other organizations and universities.

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Percy Lavon Julian was born on April 11, 1899. An American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine and was a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol. His work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills.

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Percy Lavon Julian was a chemist who held 138 patents and helped create drugs for treating arthritis and glaucoma [cortisone and physostigmine, (1935)] and Aero Foam, used to put out gas/oil fires in World War II.

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Responce to the @writingwithcolor about my question about black scientists in the 50s/60s

Thank you for your response! I researched and even more than George Washington Carver I found amazingly close plot points in the life of Percy Lavon Julian, that I used to write those characters. I have many black characters in this AU but only 3 of them have higher degree - going with Super/M*d Scientist archetype. They are based on white comic characters, who were scrapped to the basic idea and rewritten - because of that I don't think that specifics on who those characters are would be relevant. One of them is a hero, one is a villain, and one was invented as a villain but in my take is more True Neutral.

The Hero is mixed, half black half south-asian, but having mostly black features. His mother moved to the US from Britain. He is a calm, kind-hearted man working under the big medical company as a research chemist. He wanted to be a scholar in the university he was attending, but was denied a professorship for racial reasons.This company looks all around the world looking for fictional substances that might heal people from many illnesses. He was hired mostly due to the fact that he knew Indian dialects thanks to his mom, and they were looking for this substance in India. He was obligated mostly to work as translator between indian workers and their english-speaking supervisors, but later he could get himself to work on this “science juice”. He synthesised it to the single enzyme that was technically able to safely mutate people - change their size, giving them wings, gills, tails, increase the strength and durability without damaging the body and risking life. He was afraid that the company might use it to do evil. Keeping the discovery of substance in a secret, Hero decided that human trials would be limited to the only subject he could trust: himself. Feeling that the mutating abilities induced by this drug should be used for good purposes, he decided to use the abilities to help those in need; in other words, he would become a superhero. He crippled the company’s outpost in India and later he moved back to the US, joining a local superhero group. He later has a problem with staying with the rest though- his colleagues are creeped out by his mutating body, also he gets a bit of an addiction problem, that makes his (mostly white) partners put him on the side to not worsen their already bad PR, so he might go solo. I am not sure yet.

The Villain is the son of freed slaves, whose parents really fought for him to get him a chance of proper education. He got himself into a local university who allowed some black people to become a medic. During his education he was noticed for his surgeon skills by a doctor from France guesting in the US and he got himself sent to finish his graduation to Lausanne University. He shares his room with white guy who is gay and fells in love with him, but never speaks about his feelings, because homosexuality was perceived as mental illness, and he really wants to be a psychiatrist. After graduating he decides to stay in France and work under this doctor - sadly it turns out that he acts like the Villain owes him a favor for this, and therefore he has to work for him for lesser payment and his private research is regularly stolen. His main reason to stay is that “maybe it's bad but under Jim Crow it would be worse” and this situation remains to the start of WW2. During the war he joins the resistance, and later he becomes medic for the US troops. War throws him into hell, when the final point is learning about liberation of Auschwitz camp by soviets. He is broken by the amount of death around him, as he comes to the conclusion that human life, as it is, is worthless, as well as his medic job. So he decides to commit his life to find the way to achieve immortality for the human kind. Over the years he grows more ruthless and obsessed over his research, as he comes back to the US in the 50s, supposedly for a science symposium, but really to get himself a body of an ancient vampire that was discovered in the city where his past roommate lives, with some extra stealing funds for research and kidnaping people for experiments. At the finale he injects himself with the immortality serum, who turns him into a scary monster, and later immobilises him, as a fate worse than death. (he comes back tho)

The Neutral one is Jamaican man. He was raised during the birth of the rasta religion, but was always interested in wealthy whites going onto the island on summer vacation. He decides to move to the US after a girl he once met. After didnt finding her he is still too stubborn to come back and decides to get himself a high degree in zoology and/or pharmacy. After getting a degree he becomes an assistant in a local drug store. It turns out that the owner of this shop is selling drugs to the mafia. When the owner once decides to stop trade with them they kill him, and The Neutral One is immediately blamed. With a half-assed trial he is sentenced to prison, but his prison bus has an accident. Neutral One is nastly scarred as he is able to flee. Later he lives a hermit lifestyle in the abandoned parts of the city, accompanied only by animals and the local community of homeless people, who are treating him as their medic and protector (even sometimes they microinsult him, by calling him “Wizard” what he really hates, as he was working too hard for his knowledge to be dismissed as magic). He himself is sad, distant and emotionally closed, being completely disappointed by the “Babylon'' around him. Later natural catastrophe forces him to move from his comfort zone and find a new place for himself. Are there any things that make you go “yikes”? Is there something to change, develop, explain better? PS1. All those 3 characters have body-horror elements in them. I can explain it as almost ALL characters I redesigned for this AU have those mutation elements, of all genders and ethnicities. I just adore body horror.

PS2 Those characters in the current form of the story don't really interact with each other. While the Hero has other black people to interact with, both Villain and Neutral are alienated by design… and that makes them a bit “token”.

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The brilliant Percy Julian

Early Life

Percy Lavon Julian was born April 11, 1899, in Montgomery, Alabama, the grandson of former slaves. He attended school through the eighth grade but there were no high schools open to Black students. He applied to DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where he had to take high school-level classes in the evening to get him up to the academic level of his peers. In spite of this challenging beginning, he graduated first in his class, with Phi Beta Kappa honors.

Life in Academia

After college, Julian accepted a position as a chemistry instructor at Fisk University. He left in 1923 when he received a scholarship to attend Harvard University to finish his master’s degree, though the university would not allow him to pursue his doctorate. He traveled for several years, teaching at Black colleges, before obtaining his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna in Austria in 1931.

With his doctorate in hand, he returned to DePauw to continue his research. In 1935, he earned international acclaim by synthesizing physostigmine from the calabar bean to create a drug treatment for glaucoma, but in spite of his success, the university refused to make him a full professor because of his race.

Later Career and Death

Desiring to leave academia, Julian applied for jobs at prominent chemical companies but was repeatedly rejected when hiring managers discovered that he was Black. Ultimately, he obtained a position at Glidden Company as the lab director. There he invented Aero-Foam, a product that uses soy protein to put out oil and gas fires and was widely used in World War II, as well as other soybean-based inventions.

Julian continued his biomedical work as well and discovered how to extract sterols from soybean oil and synthesize the hormones progesterone and testosterone. He was also lauded for his synthesis of cortisone, which became used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

Julian left Glidden in 1953 and established his own laboratory, Julian Laboratories, in 1954. He sold the company in 1961, becoming one of the first Black millionaires, before founding Julian Research Institute, a nonprofit organization that he ran for the rest of his life.

He died of liver cancer on April 19, 1975.

Recognition

In 1973, Julian became the first Black chemist elected to the National Academy of the Sciences. In 1990, he was elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and in 1999 his synthesis of physostigmine was recognized by the American Chemical Society as “one of the top 25 achievements in the history of American chemistry.”

Personal Life

Julian met his wife, Anna Roselle, while employed at Howard University, and the two were accused of having an affair while she was married to one of his colleagues. A scandal ensued and Julian was fired, but he and Anna married in 1935 and had two children.

In 1950, Julian and his family moved to Oak Park, Illinois. After they purchased their home but before they moved in, the house was firebombed on Thanksgiving Day. It was attacked again in June 1951.

Julian’s life was the subject of a documentary film made for PBS’s Nova series, entitled Forgotten Genius. (source)