Percy Lavon Julian
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Percy Lavon Julian was an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. Julian was the first person to synthesize the natural product physostigmine,
Julian c. 1940–1968
Anna Johnson Julian
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Anna Johnson Julian, born Anna Roselle Johnson was the first African-American woman awarded a PhD in sociology by the University of Pennsylvania, a civic activist, and fourth national president of Del
Percy Lavon Julian
…Fund of Chicago. Julian died of liver cancer in Waukegan, Illinois on April 19, 1975, a week after his 76th birthday. On December 24, 1935, he married Anna Roselle (Ph.D. in sociology, 1937, University of Pennsylvania). They had two children: Percy Lavon Julian Jr. (August 31, 1940 – February 24, 2008), who became…
Johnson in 1923
Members at 1921 national Delta Sigma Theta convention (l to r): front, Virginia Margaret Alexander, Julia Mae Polk, Sadie Tanner Mossell; row 2, Anna R. Johnson, Nellie Rathbone Bright; back, Pauline Alice Young