[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 34 Received in Senate (RDS)]

  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 34


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 31, 2007

                                Received

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
  Honoring the life of Percy Lavon Julian, a pioneer in the field of 
   organic chemistry research and development and the first and only 
 African American chemist to be inducted into the National Academy of 
                               Sciences.

Whereas Percy Julian was born on April 11, 1899, in Montgomery, Alabama, the son 
        of a railway clerk and the first member of his family to attend college, 
        graduating from DePauw University in 1920, receiving a M.S. degree from 
        Harvard University in 1923 and a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna in 
        1931;
Whereas in 1935 Dr. Julian became the first to discover a process to synthesize 
        physostigmine, the drug used in the treatment of glaucoma;
Whereas Dr. Julian later pioneered a commercial process to synthesize cortisone 
        from soy beans and yams, enabling the widespread use of cortisone as an 
        affordable treatment of arthritis;
Whereas Dr. Julian was the first African American chemist elected to the 
        National Academy of Sciences in 1973 for his lifetime of scientific 
        accomplishments, held over 130 patents at the time of his death in 1975, 
        and dedicated much of his life to the advancement of African Americans 
        in the sciences; and
Whereas Dr. Julian's life story has been documented in the PBS NOVA film 
        ``Forgotten Genius'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),  
That the Congress honors the life of Percy Lavon Julian, a pioneer in 
the field of organic chemistry research and development and the first 
and only African American chemist to be inducted into the National 
Academy of Sciences.

            Passed the House of Representatives January 31, 2007.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.