George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver was born on a Missouri farm near Diamond Grove, 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 f…