Note to readers: Some of this post was buried in yesterday's nearly 1,700-word biographical piece on the April 11th Google Doodle honoring the pioneering medicinal and industrial chemist, Dr. Percy ...

The U.S. Postal Service issued a 29-cent Black Heritage Series commemorative in Chicago on Friday for Percy Lavon Julian, an Alabama-born chemist who helped discover drugs for the relief of glaucoma ...

In March 1999, at the spring national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim, Calif., producers from the television program NOVA dropped in on a symposium celebrating the 100th ...

You know the story of the brilliant chemist Percy Julian, right? The Alabama-born grandson of a man who’d had fingers amputated as punishment for learning to read and write while enslaved, his ...

A film biography about the life and career of pioneering African American chemist Percy Lavon Julian (1899???1975) is among the winners of the 2007 AAAS Science Journalism Awards from the American ...

“Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters” takes tweeners on a wild ride while Percy and his posse fight for the golden fleece. Know anyone prescribed cortisone, testosterone or another steroid? If so they ...

Percy L. Julian, the 1920 DePauw University valedictorian and a renowned chemist who was denied a faculty appointment at his alma mater, was posthumously appointed to DePauw’s chemistry faculty today ...

Just before the turn of the century, Percy Lavon Julian was born in Montgomery, Alabama. He was a bright student, but at that time the city provided no public education for black students after eighth ...