George Washington Carver was an a agricultural chemist who played an important role in agricultural advancements in the U.S. He was the son of slaves, and was born around the year 1860, near Diamond Grove, Missouri. Carver was an outstanding student in high school, and later went on to Simpson College, in Iowa, in 1891. He graduated from the Iowa Agricultural College in 1894 with a B.S. degree, and taught agriculture and bacterial botany while working …showed first 75 words of 302 total…

…showed last 75 words of 302 total…well-known scientist, he was an excellent artist as well, receiving various awards for his outstanding artwork. Although he received many awards for his artistic ability, the majority of his awards were granted on behalf of his outstanding achievement in the field of agricultural chemistry. He was truly a man of his time, as his reputation has shown, and has successfully gained the title of being “one of the nation’s greatest educators and agricultural researchers.”