On Friday, the Google Doodle honors Percy Lavon Julian — a pioneer in drugs such as cortisone, steroids, and birth control pills — on what would have been his 115th birthday. The chemist is memorable in history beyond his medical discoveries, as he
On Friday, the Google Doodle honors Percy Lavon Julian — a pioneer in drugs such as cortisone, steroids, and birth control pills — on what would have been his 115th birthday. The chemist is memorable in history beyond his medical discoveries, as he
Google is celebrating the life of Percy Lavon Julian with a doodle on its homepage today, his 115th birthday. He died from liver cancer in 1975 at the age of 76. Julian is known as a brilliant chemist, who emerged from the Jim
The Alabama native was born to two former slaves, and while he faced much adversity, still attained his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna in Austria. His research led to advances in birth control and treatments for both arthritis and glaucoma. After
Dr. Percy L. Julian Would Have Turned 115 Yesterday — A Founding Father — Of Modern BioScience/Medicine. There will always be some people, a precious few — who succeed — against long odds. And then there are