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George Washington Carver



Carver, George Washington (1860–1943), U.S. chemist, botanist, and educator, born of slave parents in Missouri. As director of agricultural research at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama (1896–1943), he fostered soil improvement by crop rotation, and developed hundreds of industrial uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes.



See also: Botany.

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