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Inspired by Percy Julian

Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899, Montgomery, Al. – April 19, 1975, Waukegan, Illinois) was a U.S. research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. As a young scholar, Julian always wanted to obtain his doctorate in chemistry, but learned it would be difficult for an African-American. Despite this fact he continued to follow dreams and aspirations. Julian attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Julian graduated from DePauw in 1920 Phi Beta Kappa and valedictorian. After graduating from DePauw, Julian became a chemistry instructor at Fisk University. He then received an Austin Fellowship in Chemistry and went to Harvard University in 1923 for his M.S. Apprehensive that white students would resent being educated by an African-American, Harvard withdrew Julian's teaching assistantship. He was unable to complete his Ph.D. at Harvard. In 1929, while an instructor at Howard University, Julian received a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to continue his graduate work at the University of Vienna, where he earned his PhD in 1931. During his lifetime he received more than 130 chemical patents. He was the first African-American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.