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George Washington Carver National Monument: Peanuts
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George Washington Carver was born on a Missouri farm near Diamond Grove (now called Diamond), Newton County in Marion Township, Missouri. He received a B.S. from the Iowa Agricultural College in 1894 and a M.S. in 1896. He became a member of the faculty of Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in charge of the school's bacterial laboratory work in the Systematic Botany department. His work with agricultural products developed industrial applications from farm products, called chemurgy in technical literature in the early 1900s. His research developed 325 products from peanuts, 108 applications for sweet potatoes, and 75 products derived from pecans. He moved to Tuskegee, Alabama in 1896 to accept a position as an instructor at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and remained on the faculty until his death in 1943.
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George Washington Carver is best known for creating over 300 uses for the peanut and over 150 uses for the sweet potato. In a research and teaching career that spanned nearly 50 years at two institutions, Dr. Carver created countless products that improved the quality of life for many farm families. Dr. Carver instituted the first extension program in the South and developed industrial uses for farm wastes and by-products. This work earned Dr. Carver the title of "the father of chemurgy." That US presidents, Secretarys of Agriculture, and foreign leaders lauded his work might be considered surprising, considering his inauspicious beginnings.
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Once a kidnapped slave baby, George Washington Carver found freedom in learning everything he could about the world around him. Overcoming poverty and racism, George became a brilliant scientist and a gifted professor who dedicated his expertise to helping black farmers escape the devastating grip of poverty. George's scientific creativity knew no limits. His ingenious experimentation with peanuts and other plants helped rescue the failing Southern economy. Still remembered for his reaching and diverse achievements, Dr. Carver generously shared his talent simply for the reward of helping others.
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While George Washington Carver is most widely recognized for his scientific contributions regarding the peanut, he is ... often recognized as devoted Christian. God and science were both areas of intrigue, not warring ideas in the mind of George Washington Carver. While contemporary scientific endeavors may practice methodological naturalism, an approach which believes the universe to be unguided or chaotic, Carver reasoned that the God who created the universe also created the rules by which it was governed, Biblical creationism[32]. He was opposed to the scientific theory of evolution and believed the creation of the world to be the Biblical creation account from the book of Genesis verbatim. [33]He would testify on many occasions that his faith in Jesus was the only mechanism by which he could effectively pursue and perform the art of science[34][35].
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George Washington Carver was an African American botanist who worked in agricultural extension at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, and who taught former slaves farming techniques for self-sufficiency. He is ... widely credited in American public schools and elsewhere for inventing hundreds of uses for the peanut and other plants, although this laudation amounts to an urban legend.
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George Washington Carver was an inspired botanist, inventor, innovator, and artist. He pioneered crop rotation and promoted planting peanuts by discovering more than 300 uses for them. His laboratory work produced innovations in synthetic rubber, metal polish, adhesives, bleach, axle grease, buttermilk, fuel briquettes, paper, shaving cream, shoe polish, dyes, stains, and plastics, as well as hundreds of uses for sweet potatoes, soybeans and legumes.
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