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Special Thanks
A. K. Ganguly, Stevens Institute
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Jerrold Meinwald, Cornell University
Gregory Petsko, Brandeis University
Dagmar Ringe, Brandeis University
James Shoffner, Columbia College
Gilbert Stork, Columbia University
Image Credits
Forgotten Genius homepage
Image composite: (Percy Julian) © AP Photo; (calabar bean) Public
domain/Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen
Julian the Trailblazer
Images: (Percy Julian) © AP Photo; (Julian as a freshman) Courtesy DePauw
University; (Julian at Glidden Labs) Courtesy Diane Korling; (newspaper
clipping) © Chicago Defender Newspaper Library; (Julian holding glasses)
Courtesy
Norb Teclaw
Do We Need Julian Today?
Images: (all) Courtesy of Donna Nelson
The Producer's Story
Images: (Julian portrait in Vienna) © Ellinor Leibmann van Geel,
courtesy of Corrie Schweigler; (young Jim Letton in KSU lab) Courtesy of Jim
Letton; (Julian with his DePauw students in lab) Courtesy of John Cole; (Julian
with two women) Courtesy of Corrie Schweigler; (lab notes) Courtesy Arnie
Hirsch; (Steve Lyons)
©
NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation
Career Milestones
Images: (calabar bean) Public domain/Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen; (Percy
Julian in lab) Courtesy Norb Teclaw; (Julian and student)
©
AP Photo; (Glidden advertisement) © American Soybean Association; (Julian
in Glidden laboratory) © AP Photo; (arthritis article) © Saturday
Evening Post; (Julian at Julian Labs) Courtesy Arnie Hirsch; (Julian stamp)
Courtesy U.S. Postal Service
Julian Speaks
Image: (Percy Julian) © Bettmann/CORBIS
Those Who Knew Him
Images: (all) © NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation
Nature's Pharmacy
Images: (cinchona) Courtesy USGS; (Streptomyces) Courtesy of CDC/Dr. David Berd; (penicillin
mold) Courtesy George Barron/Kenyon College; (cone snail) © Jonathan
Blair/CORBIS; (Pacific yew) Courtesy Robert Beall/Flathead Valley Community
College; (opium poppy) Courtesy Mark Nesbitt and Delwen Samuel; (foxglove)
© Karl Gordon; (soybeans) Courtesy USDA; (Mexican yam) © Stephen
Foster
Build a Steroid
Images: (test tubes) © PflueglFoto; (chemical process) © NOVA/WGBH
Educational Foundation
TV Program Description
Image: (Percy Julian in his office) © AP Images
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TV Program Credits
Narrated by
Courtney B. Vance
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
as Percy Julian
Edited by
Doug Quade
Written by
Stephen Lyons
Llewellyn M. Smith
Directed by
Llewellyn M. Smith
Words spoken by the Julian character in this program were drawn from Percy Julian's writings and congressional testimony.
Produced by
Llewellyn M. Smith
Stephen Lyons
Associate Producer
Franziska Blome
Director of Research
Meredith Woods
Project Director
Stephen Lyons
Music
Claudio Ragazzi
Camera
Gary Henoch
Tom Fahey
Stephen McCarthy
Sound Recordists
Clint Bramesco
Steve Bores
Cast
(in order of appearance)
Percy Julian
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Percy Julian 10 Yrs Old
Raymond Lambert
Lynching Victim
Shawn Agard
James Julian
Gregory Velez
Young Percy Julian
Ray Almeida
Percy's Mother
Bobbie Patrick
Great Grandmother
Carmen Dillon
Grandfather
Edward Logan
Grandmother
Ceoria Coates
Prof. Blanchard
Donald Watson
Josef Pikl
Jonathan Niles
Anna Julian
Pamela Lambert
Percy Julian Jr.
Langston Toxey
Counsel Hollabaugh
Sean McGuirk
Senate Chairman O'mahoney
Frank Harrison
Assistant Camera
Matt Thurber
Dick Williams
Assistant Directors
Brian Carlson
Mark Donadio
Art Direction
Katha Seidman
Lisa Nagid
Costume Design
Virginia Johnson
Robin Olinsky
Make Up
Joe Rossi
Trish Seeney
Gaffer
Jack McPhee
Key Grip
Thomas Doran
Storyboards
Brian Woodson
Pyro Effects
John McGrath
Stunt Coordinator
Jack McLaughlin
Casting Director
Victoria Thomas
Casting
Boston Casting, Inc.
Endeavor Talent Agency
Consultant
Percy L. Julian Jr.
Story Consultant
Meredith Woods
Chemical Consultants
Frank M. Hauser
Arnold Hirsch
Rhoda & Jim Morris
Project Advisors
James Anderson
Evelynn Hammonds
Ned D. Heindel
Darlene Clark Hine
John Kenly Smith Jr.
Kenneth R. Manning
Willie Pearson
Christopher R. Reed
Leo Slater
Herbert Smitherman
Bernhard Witkop
Additional Associate Producers
Jennifer Callahan
Marty Johnson
Suzanne Schulz
Additional Research
Patricia Garcia-Rios
Production Assistant
Guarav Dwivedi
Animation
Sputnik Animation
Stills Animation
Berle Cherney
Online Editor
Daniel Birnbaum
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Colorist
Dave Markun
Sound Editor And Mix
John Jenkins
Archival Material
ABCNews Videosource
Afro-American Newspapers Archives and Research Center
American Chemical Society
AP/Wide World Photos
Archive Films/Getty Images
Chemical Heritage Foundation Image Archives
Chicago Historical Society
Corbis
Corbis Motion
Ezra Stoller/Esto Gallery
Filmarchiv Austria
Fisk University Franklin Library's Special Collections
Getty Images
Life Magazine
MacDonald & Associates
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Archives
Museum of the City of New York
National Academy of Sciences
NBC News Archives
Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest
Outagamie County Historical Society, Appleton, WI
Penn State University Archives, Pennsylvania State University Libraries
Producers Library Service
Royal Society of Chemistry
The Saturday Evening Post Society
Science News Letter / Science Service
Photo Researchers / Science Photo Library
UCLA Film and Television Archive
University of Pennsylvania Archives
University of Vienna Archives
WGBH Image Gallery
WABI TV5, Bangor, Maine
Additional Still Photography by
Percy L. Julian Jr.
NOVA extends special thanks to Dr. James P. Shoffner, a tireless champion
whose efforts over eight years were critical to the making of this film.
Special Thanks
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Black Heritage Commemorative Society
Peg Botte & Linda O'Koniewski
Joan Bowman
Brandeis University
Cambridge City Hall
Cathedral High School
Wayne Cole
Jack and Marion Cook
Earl Dailey
Ray Dawson
DePauw University
Guilford Association, Inc.
Arnold Hirsch
Anne Hogan
Vernon Jarrett
Walter & Gretchen Jones
Clifford Johnson
Faith Julian
Katherine Julian
Victoria Kelley
Diane Korling
James Letton
Wesley Lyda
Tom Moore & Ann Carlson
Nahant Town Hall
Dennis O'Reilly
Greg Petsko
Gerolf Pikl
Dagmar Ringe
Cornelia Schweigler
Solae, LLC
Norbert Teclaw
Temple University
Thomas E. Worthley, UConn Cooperative Extension System
Valley Railroad Company
Peter Walton
Bernhard Witkop
NOVA Series Graphics
yU + co.
NOVA Theme Music
Walter Werzowa
John Luker
Musikvergnuegen, Inc.
Additional NOVA Theme Music
Ray Loring
Post Production Online Editor
Jim Ferguson
Closed Captioning
The Caption Center
NOVA Administrator
Ashley King
Publicity
Eileen Campion
Anna Lowi
Yumi Huh
Lindsay de la Rigaudiere
Researcher
Gaia Remerowski
Production Coordinator
Linda Callahan
Unit Manager
Carla Raimer
Paralegal
Raphael Nemes
Legal Counsel
Susan Rosen Shishko
Assistant Editor
Alex Kreuter
Associate Producer, Post Production
Patrick Carey
Post Production Supervisor
Regina O'Toole
Post Production Editor
Rebecca Nieto
Post Production Manager
Nathan Gunner
Supervising Producer
Stephen Sweigart
Producer, Special Projects
Susanne Simpson
Lisa Mirowitz
Coordinating Producer
Laurie Cahalane
Senior Science Editor
Evan Hadingham
Senior Series Producer
Melanie Wallace
Managing Director
Alan Ritsko
Senior Executive Producer
Paula S. Apsell
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