He taught at Howard University and conducted research at a laboratory in Massachusetts, updating experimental processes and discovering a controversial idea about the egg cell’s role in fertilization.
Taking a biology class and discovering the world of the cell changed his life. He studied at boarding school and attended Dartmouth College, where he had difficulty keeping up while working to pay his way and support two siblings. Just was an observant child with a schoolteacher mother, but when he caught typhoid fever, he lost the ability to read and struggled, successfully, to relearn. He noticed details others failed to see.” He became “the world authority on how life begins from an egg”-but it was a long and difficult journey. Mangal introduces Just as a scientist who “saw the whole, where others saw only parts.
Ernest Everett Just, an unsung African-American hero, changed biological science in the early 1900s.
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