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Special Thanks
A. K. Ganguly, Stevens Institute
Philip LeQuesne, Northeastern University
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

Program credits

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

 

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

 

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9901978. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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