george washington carver

     

This peanut guy devised some 118 byproducts for the sweet potato

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  • This agricultural scientist treated polio victims with peanut oil & massages
  • This man who ground up a lot of peanuts is buried on the grounds of the Tuskegee Institute
  • In 1896 he became director of agriculture at the Tuskegee Institute
  • The Tuskegee Institute has a museum named for this famed scientist who taught at the college
  • This Tuskegee scientist increased yields by alternating the planting of cotton & peanuts
  • This American botanist developed over 400 products from the sweet potato, the pecan & the peanut
  • Born near Diamond Grove, Missouri, this scientist's induction in 1983 was no small peanuts
  • He showed that by planting peanuts & soybeans you could restore the nitrogen in the soil that growing cotton took out
  • Among the more colorful nicknames of this agricultural chemist were "Peanut Man" & "Sweet-Potato Man"
  • He was honored for discovering "hundreds of new uses for crops such as the peanut"
  • A biography of him is subtitled "Man's Slave Becomes God's Scientist"
  • This botanist was hailed as "The Wizard of Tuskegee"
  • The real "Mr. Peanut", this scientist made more than 300 products from peanuts including soap & ink
  • In 1897 this son of slaves discovered 3 new species of fungi which are named for him, including taphrina carveri
  • As well as 325 products from peanuts, this black scientist developed several from soybeans & pecans
  • The Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site includes Booker T. Washington's home & a museum devoted to this peanut guy
  • The only national monument in Missouri is the birthplace of this botanist, seen here
  • This botanist donated his life savings to a research foundation at Tuskegee bearing his name
  • In 1943, the year of his death, the plantation on which he was born was made a national monument
  • Austin's African-American history is chronicled in a museum named for this agricultural scientist
  • made100products_fromsweet_potatoes_too@tuskegee.edu
  • He's the botanist seen here in 1940
  • The "Plant Magician" was Luther Burbank; this man was the "Plant Doctor"
  • Born a slave in Missouri, this scientist received a B.S. in Agriculture from Iowa State in 1894

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