| LC control no. | no2007019926 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Julian, Percy Lavon, 1899-1975 |
| Variant(s) | Julian, Percy, 1899-1975 |
| Birth date | 18990411 |
| Death date | 19750419 |
| Place of birth | Montgomery (Ala.) |
| Place of death | Waukegan, (Ill.) |
| Affiliation | DePauw University |
| Profession or occupation | Chemists |
| Found in | Forgotten genius, 2007: title frame (Percy Julian) OCLC, February 8, 2007 (hdg. : , Julian, Percy Lavon, 1899-1975) Wikipedia, April 11, 2014 (Percy Lavon Julian; April 11, 1899 in Montgomery, Alabama; died April 19, 1975, Waukegan, Ill.; 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 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) DePauw University, April 11, 2014 (Percy Lavon Julian; born in 1899 in Montgomery, Ala.; in 1920 Julian graduated from DePauw first in his class and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He taught at Fisk University and won an Austin Fellowship to Harvard University where he earned a master's degree in 1923 later he taught at West Virginia State College and Howard University, where he was appointed head of the chemistry department. In 1929, after the disappointment of being unable to pursue doctoral studies in the United States, Julian received a Rockefeller Foundation grant to study with the distinguished chemist Ernst Späth at the University of Vienna. He earned a doctorate in 1931 and returned to Howard University. In 1933 Julian accepted an appointment at DePauw as a research fellow at Minshall Laboratory, where he directed research projects for senior chemistry majors, etc.) <http://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/22969/> |
| Associated language | eng |
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