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1940
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Medical Innovation
Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Percy Julian went to Vienna, Austria for his doctoral studies where he worked with a colleague to complete the first total synthesis of physostigmine which has been used in the treatment of glaucoma since the end of the 19th century. In the late 1930s, Dr. Julian went to work for the Glidden Company in Chicago where he stumbled upon a method for producing large amounts of steroid from soybeans after water leaked into the tank of soybean oil forming stigmasterol.
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