Nova episode tonight on chemist Percy Julian

February 6, 2007 on 9:36 am | In Science News & Hot Topics |

Watch NOVA tonight (Tuesday February 6th) at 8 pm for Forgotten Genius, the story of chemist Percy Julian. KPBS airs the 2-hour-long episode, covering the life of this 20th century scientist, who was only the second African-American elected to the National Academy of Sciences (in 1973).

For more information about Percy Julian, including his life and research on soybeans, steroids and plant alkaloids, visit Nova’s companion web site.

If you miss the episode when it airs on Tuesday, you can view it on the web at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/julian/program.html or on KPBS again on Feb 8th at 2:00 am.