{"id":"mebsoak","internal_id":"72703c4d-8889-43c8-b905-bb020e239980","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/3eeo7lp/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/mebsoak"},"title":"Percy Lavon Julian's diploma from the University of Vienna","additional_title":[],"format":["text"],"genre":["Records (Documents)"],"medium":[],"extent":["42 cm W x 48.3 cm H"],"language":["Latin"],"provenance":"","subject":["Julian, Percy Lavon, 1899-1975","Universität Wien","Doctor of philosophy degree","Chemists","African American chemists","Scientists","Scientists, Black"],"department":"Archives","series_arrangement":[],"rights":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/","rights_holder":"","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Auerbach, Jahna","description":"Percy Lavon Julian’s (1899–1975) framed doctoral diploma from the University of Vienna. The degree recognizes his contributions to the study of several alkaloids and a new heterocyclic free radical.\n\nIn 1929, Julian received a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship that enabled him to pursue a doctorate in chemistry. He chose to study natural products chemistry under Ernst Späth (1886-1946) at the University of Vienna, where his research focused on the chemistry of plant-derived compounds.\n\n\n","description_html":"<p>Percy Lavon Julian’s (1899–1975) framed doctoral diploma from the University of Vienna. The degree recognizes his contributions to the study of several alkaloids and a new heterocyclic free radical.</p>\n\n<p>In 1929, Julian received a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship that enabled him to pursue a doctorate in chemistry. He chose to study natural products chemistry under Ernst Späth (1886-1946) at the University of Vienna, where his research focused on the chemistry of plant-derived compounds.</p>","published_at":"2026-08-10T13:37:56Z","updated_at":"2026-08-10T13:37:56Z","creator":[{"category":"creator_of_work","value":"Universität Wien"}],"date_of_work":[{"start":"1931-07-22","start_qualifier":"","finish":"","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"1931-Jul-22"}],"place":[{"category":"place_of_creation","value":"Austria--Vienna"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":null}