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  Portrait of Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975)

  • 1950s

  Portrait of Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975), African American research chemist and pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.

  Percy Lavon Julian was born in Montgomery, Alabama on April 11, 1899…

  • Subject Chemists, Julian, Percy Lavon, 1899-1975, African American chemists, Portraits, Organic compounds--Synthesis, African Americans, Steroids
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Percy L. Julian to Bernhard Witkop

  • 1949-Jan-05

  Concerns Robert B. Woodward's synthesis of methochloride of sempervirine. Also discusses an error made by Julian in the lab and communicated to Witkop in an earlier letter.

  • Addressee Witkop, Bernhard 1917-
  • Author Julian, Percy Lavon, 1899-1975
  • Subject Prelog, V. (Vladimir), 1906-1998, Glidden Company, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Julian, Percy Lavon, 1899-1975, Chemistry, Organic, Organic compounds--Synthesis, Witkop, Bernhard, 1917-