“The Need of Scientific Agriculture in the South”
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George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was one of the most prominent Black scientists of the early 20th century.
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science · American botanist and inventor (1864–1943) · botanist · inventor · university teacher · mycologist · chemist · biologist · botanical collector · scientific collector · agronomist · also George Washington Carver, Carver, George Carver, G. W. Carver, George W. Carver, Geo. W. Carver
Born 1 January 1864 · Died 5 January 1943 · Q296898
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2026· 3 entries
“His death was characteristic of him and his entire life”
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Public attention spiked: 4,862 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.3× the usual 1,144, with 0 article edits.
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2005· 2 entries
An episode of Modern Marvels included scenes from within Iowa State University's Food Sciences Building and about Carver's work
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Carver's research at the Tuskegee Institute was designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society
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2002· 1 entry
Scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed George Washington Carver as one of 100 Greatest African Americans
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2000· 1 entry
Carver was a charter inductee in the USDA Hall of Heroes as the "Father of Chemurgy"
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1998· 1 entry
As part of the Celebrate the Century stamp sheet series
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1994· 1 entry
Iowa State University awarded Carver a Doctor of Humane Letters
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1990).
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Was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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1977· 1 entry
Carver was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans
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1965· 1 entry
Ballistic missile submarine USS George Washington Carver (SSBN-656) launched
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1963· 1 entry
Carver Middle School (disambiguation)
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1943· 5 entries
Died 1943-01-05.
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Curtis was fired from Tuskegee Institute
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“Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.”
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“When our thoughts — which bring actions — are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.”
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“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.”
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1941· 2 entries
Time magazine dubbed Carver a "Black Leonardo"
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An exhibit of his work was available at the George Washington Carver Museum in Tuskegee
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1937· 1 entry
Carver attended two chemurgy conferences, an emerging field in the 1930s, during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, concerned with developing new products from crops
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1932· 2 entries
“A Boy Who Was Traded for a Horse”
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The writer James Saxon Childers wrote that Carver and his peanut products were almost solely responsible for the rise in U
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1928· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by Simpson College (1928).
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1925· 1 entry
To 1927; however, they were not commercially successful
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1923· 1 entry
Won Spingarn Medal (1923).
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1921· 1 entry
Peanut farmers and industry representatives planned to appear at Congressional hearings to ask for a tariff
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1920· 1 entry
And in testimony before Congress in 1921 to support passage of a tariff on imported peanuts, brought him wide publicity and increasing renown
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1916· 2 entries
Carver was made a member of the Royal Society of Arts in England, one of only a handful of Americans at that time to receive this honor
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Many methods of preparation of peanut butter had been developed or patented by various pharmacists, doctors and food scientists working in the US and Canada
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1915· 1 entry
His successor made fewer demands on Carver for administrative tasks
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1911· 2 entries
Washington wrote a letter to him complaining that Carver had not followed orders to plant particular crops at the experiment station
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Carver complained that his laboratory had not received the equipment which Washington had promised 11 months before
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1906· 1 entry
At Tuskegee, Carver led a Bible class on Sundays for several students at their request
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1904· 1 entry
An Institute committee reported that Carver's reports on yields from the poultry yard were exaggerated, and Washington confronted Carver about the issue
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1902· 1 entry
Won: Taxa named after him include with 2004, George Washington Carver Bridge, Des Moines, Iowa (1902).
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1900· 1 entry
Carver complained that the physical work and the letter-writing required were too much
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1891· 1 entry
Was the first black student at Iowa State
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1890· 1 entry
Carver started studying art and piano at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa
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1884· 1 entry
12 years before Carver began his work at Tuskegee
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1864· 1 entry
Born 1864-01-01.
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