Percy Lavon Julian
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African-American chemist
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Chemistry
Percy Lavon Julian's Degrees
- Bachelors Chemistry DePauw University
- PhD Chemistry University of Vienna
Why Is Percy Lavon Julian Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Percy Lavon Julian was 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 pillss.
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