The Black Scientist That Changed Medicine Forever

The Black scientist everyone should know.

Julian grew up in Alabama where no high school would accept him because of his race. He went on to earn a PhD from the University of Vienna, become a pioneering synthetic chemist, and was ultimately the first person to synthesize cortisone at scale, the drug treatment for arthritis and many inflammatory diseases, making it widely accessible.

Before his breakthrough, cortisone was extracted from cattle bile and cost SO much only the wealthy could affo