Percy Lavon Julian, Ph.D.: 1899-1975 His life
and work was the subject of a very recent special television
program. Born one of six children, his father was a
railroad clerk and his mother a schoolteacher. He became a
research chemist, obtained 130 patents and developed products for
treating arthritis, glaucoma and allergies. He was the first to
develop a method to manufacture synthetic cortisone which made it
available to millions of pain-sufferers for the first time.
