Carver

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George Washington Carver, an agricultural chemist, the discoverer of three hundred uses for peanuts and the discoverer of hundreds of uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes became one of the most prestigious scientist of his time.
George Washington Carver was born Jan.5, 1864 in Diamond Grove
Mississippi. His mother was stolen from the plantation when he was a young child .
He grew up on the plantation of slave owners Moses and Mary Carver. He had one older
brother named Jim Carver.
He attended Minneapolis High School in Kansas. At age thirty Carver Attended Simpson College in Indianola Iowa, where he was the first black student. He later transferred to Iowa Agricultural College (now Iowa State University) in 1891 where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1894 and a Master of Science degree in Bacterial Botany and Agriculture in 1897 .
George Washington Carver was bestowed an Honorary Doctorate from Simpson College
in 1928. He was an honorary member of the Royal Society of Arts in London England
.He received the Spingarn Medal in 1923. In 1939 he received the Roosevelt Medal
for restoring southern agriculture. In 1943 Carver became the director of agriculture and remained on faculty until his death on January 5,1943. George Washington Carver made
many major accomplishments. He discovered many uses for peanuts, soybeans and sweet
potatoes. He created recipes and improvements for adhesives, axle grease, bleach, buttermilk, chili sauce, fuel, briquettes, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, meat tenderizers, metal polish, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, shoe polish, talcum powder, and wood stain. .
The area of Carvers childhood near Diamond Grove Missouri was preserved as a park. This was the first designated national monument to an African American in the United States.
George Washington Carver eased the dependence on cotton while overcoming the hurdle of being black during slaver...