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Born Charleston, South CarolinaOne of the most brilliant American scientists of his generation, Ernest Everett Just graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1907 and earned his doctorate in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1916. While serving on the faculty of Howard University from 1907 to 1941, Just devoted many summers to experimental research at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. His studies of fertilization and early development in marine invertebrates yielded a host of groundbreaking discoveries that overturned widely accepted theories. Despite the significance of Just’s work, racial prejudice prevented his full acceptance into the American scientific community. European scientists welcomed him, however, and he spent much of his later career conducting research abroad. In 1996, the U.S. Postal Service featured Just in its Black Heritage stamp series. This drawing of the scientist at work was created for the envelopes that the Postal Service produced to commemorate the stamp’s first day of issue.Nacido en Charleston, Carolina del SurUno de los más brillantes científicos estadounidenses de su generación, Ernest Everett Just se graduó magna cum laude de Dartmouth College en 1907 y obtuvo su doctorado en zoología en la Universidad de Chicago en 1916. Mientras fue profesor de la Universidad Howard, desde 1907 hasta 1941, dedicó muchos veranos a investigaciones experimentales en el laboratorio de biología marina de Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Sus estudios sobre la fertilización y el desarrollo temprano de los invertebrados marinos generaron descubrimientos revolucionarios que derrumbaron teorías ampliamente aceptadas. A pesar de...

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National Portrait Gallery

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Smithsonian Institution