Teachers' Domain; Percy Julian Chemistry and Civil Rights Resources; Percy Julian Dreyfus 2007; Making Cortisone from Plants; Forgotten Genius: Percy Julian Collection
- Series
- Teachers' Domain
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/15-v97zk55w4n
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- Description
- Episode Description
- This video segment adapted from NOVA is a dramatized story of chemist Percy Julians work to synthesize cortisone. Find out how a biological process, not a chemical one, proved the key to producing cortisone in bulk.
- Description
- This video segment adapted from NOVA is a dramatized story of chemist Percy Julian?s work to synthesize cortisone. Find out how a biological process, not a chemical one, proved the key to producing cortisone in bulk.
- Description
- See related asset "drey07_vid_cortisone_Backgrounder.xml"
- Description
- In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn how chemist Percy Julian made cortisone?a steroid used to treat rheumatoid arthritis?more easily accessible to millions of patients. Julian knew from earlier studies that plants and animals produced steroids with the same carbon-ring structure, so he isolated large quantities of molecules that closely resembled human cortisone from a cheap and abundant plant source?soybeans. To produce cortisone from these molecules, scientists had only to find a way to deliver single oxygen atoms to a specific position on their carbon rings.
- Description
- What is meant by the term "chemical pathway"? Why was cortisone initially so scarce? Compare and contrast biological and chemical processes. Explain the importance of Julian's Compound S. How did it ultimately make cortisone more readily available? Have you or someone you know ever had to be treated with cortisone? If so, what was the outcome?
- Subjects
- Chemical Change; The Atomic Basis of the Properties of Matter; Chemical Reaction and Electrons; research :: science and society :: scientific knowledge; NCSS-II-08; structure and properties of matter :: chemistry :: carbon molecules; research :: chemistry :: scientific knowledge; chemical reactions :: health care; research :: science and society :: history; science
- Rights
- Rights Note:Download and Share,Rights:,Rights Credit:2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. All rights reserved. Journal papers reproduced by permission of the American Chemical Society. Photographs courtesy of Chicago Defender, Ian Sanderson/Getty Images, and SCIENCE NEWS, the weekly magazine of science, copyright 1950 by Science Service. Footage and photographs courtesy of the Mayo Clinic, Merck and Monsanto. Music composed by Claudio Ragazzi.,Rights Type:All,Rights Coverage:,Rights Holder:WGBH Educational Foundation
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:03:18
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
Publisher: Teachers' Domain
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: 9a0f55398da51b59f51a05af307ca18d5e9f0158 (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
Format: video/quicktime
Color: Color
Duration: 00:03:18
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Teachers' Domain; Percy Julian Chemistry and Civil Rights Resources; Percy Julian Dreyfus 2007; Making Cortisone from Plants; Forgotten Genius: Percy Julian Collection,” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 4, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-v97zk55w4n.
- MLA: “Teachers' Domain; Percy Julian Chemistry and Civil Rights Resources; Percy Julian Dreyfus 2007; Making Cortisone from Plants; Forgotten Genius: Percy Julian Collection.” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 4, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-v97zk55w4n>.
- APA: Teachers' Domain; Percy Julian Chemistry and Civil Rights Resources; Percy Julian Dreyfus 2007; Making Cortisone from Plants; Forgotten Genius: Percy Julian Collection. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-v97zk55w4n