Just before the turn of the century, Percy Lavon Julian was born in Montgomery ... a few years before traveling to Austria to obtain his PhD in chemistry from the University of Vienna in 1931.

The challenger was Percy Lavon Julian, a young, Black chemist at DePauw University in Indiana. Born in 1899 in Alabama as the grandson of former slaves, Julian grew up under Jim Crow laws. He’d been ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Guillermo A. Ameer has won the Percy L. Julian Award given by the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE), ...

Montgomery Advertiser readers have voted Percy Julian standout Kenyada Hampton as the area's high school Student of the Week.

Just before the turn of the century, Percy Lavon Julian was born in Montgomery ... a few years before traveling to Austria to obtain his PhD in chemistry from the University of Vienna in 1931.