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Ernest Everett Just was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1883.
As a sophomore at Dartmouth, he enrolled in his first biology class and
read an article which attempted to explained the process of
fertilization and egg development, which sparked a lifelong interest in
embryology. Graduating from Dartmouth with special honors in zoology
and history (although his major was English), he immediately went to a
teaching job at Howard. He received his Ph.D. from Chicago and
continued teaching at Howard while returning to Woods Hole, a haven for
biologists, every summer. He attempted to explain the process of
fertilization and egg development, a subject on which he became an
international authority.
He was a pioneer in blood plasma research. He was invited to work
at many European laboratories, including The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
in Germany, the Sorbonne, the Naples Zoological Laboratory and various
Russian Laboratories. No such invitation came from laboratories in the
United States, as segregation was firmly entrenched in the American way
of life.
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