Group portrait of the Percy Lavon Julian family (left to right): Anna Roselle Julian, Percy Lavon Julian, Jr., Faith Roselle Julian, and Percy Lavon Julian. Percy Lavon Julian was an organic chemist. He earned his BS from DePauw University, his MS from Harvard University and his PhD from the University of Vienna. He taught and later worked for the Glidden Company as a Research Director. He founded Julian Associates, and Julian Research Institute in 1964. Anna Roselle Julian was the first African-American woman awarded a PhD in sociology (1937) by the University of Pennsylvania, a civic activist, and fourth national president of Delta Sigma Theta. Percy Lavon Julian, Jr. became a noted civil rights lawyer in Madison, Wisconsin.
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African American chemists African American sociologists Julian, Percy Lavon, Jr., 1940-2008 Julian, Faith Roselle Julian, Anna Roselle, 1903-1994 Julian, Percy Lavon, 1899-1975
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