Percy Lavon Julian

Percy Lavon Julian
Percy Lavon Julian

Percy Lavon Julian was an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, plus a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol. His work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills.

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Male
Date of Birth
April 11st, 1899
Age
125
Birth Place
United States of America, Alabama
Date of Death
April 19th, 1975
Died Aged
76
Star Sign
Aries
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