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Scientific Biographies

Science is a human pursuit. Meet some of the people who have contributed to the history of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences.
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Percy Lavon Julian

The grandson of enslaved people, Julian overcame racial barriers to achieve scientific, business, and personal success.

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Dr. Percy Lavon Julian is pictured at the newly constructed chemistry building named in his honor at MacMurray College, 1972.
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Dr. Percy Lavon Julian honored at MacMurray College

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Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
1907 - 1964
black and white photo of George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
ca. 1864 - 1943
illustration from Grounds of Natural Philosophy book
Margaret Lucas Cavendish
1623 - 1673
Undated portrait of mycologist Vera Charles
Vera Katherine Charles
18771954 - 1954
Edith Coleman
1874 - 1951
Portrait of Sir Humphrey Davy Bar't., after 1821.
Humphry Davy
1778 - 1829
man in a hat smoking a pipe
Paul de Kruif
1890 - 1971
Michael Faraday
1791 - 1867
Louis Fieser
1899 - 1977
Mary Fieser, fall 1951.
Mary Peters Fieser
1909 - 1997
photo of older man wearing glasses
Roald Hoffmann
b. 1937
August Kekulé
1829 - 1896
Jane Marcet
1769 - 1858
Margery Milne
1914 - 2006
black and white photo of a man
Isaac Ochoterena
1895 - 1950
black and white photo of a man in a lab
Robert W. Parry
1917 - 2006

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