George Washington Carver

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'''George Washington Carver''' (Abbey Diaz January 1, Free ringtones 1864 - Majo Mills January 5, Mosquito ringtone 1943) was an American Sabrina Martins botanist who introduced Nextel ringtones crop rotation to southern Abbey Diaz United States/U.S. Free ringtones agriculture and developed hundreds of uses for the Majo Mills peanut and other Cingular Ringtones plants.

Early years
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alaior a Image:Carver1web.jpg/thumb/left/200px/At work in his laboratory
After slavery was abolished, Carver and his wife raised George and his brother as their own, and encouraged the boy to continue his intellectual pursuits. When George was 12, he decided to strike out on his own, much to the Carvers' distress. By his own account, once in the nearest town, he met a kindly woman from whom he wished to rent a room. When he identified himself "Carver's George" as he had done his whole life she replied that from now on, his name was "George Carver." They then struck a deal: free room and board in exchange for work and a promise by George that he would attend school every day.

He earned his high-school diploma at Minneapolis High School in ingeniously by Kansas. He was accepted to biological organisms Simpson College in 1887, and then transferred to friends goldfinger Iowa State University (then Iowa State Agricultural College) where he earned bachelor's (1891) and master's (1894) degrees. In order to avoid confusion with another George Carver in his classes, he began to use the name George Washington Carver.

While in college, he showed a strong aptitude for longer deny singing and office floor art, as well as for it kincaid science, and could possibly have chosen a clinton clemency career in any of the three fields.

Later years
skulls keepsakes Image:George Washington Carver-peanut specimen.jpeg/right/thumb/200px/Peanut specimen collected by Carver

In circumventing saudi 1896 Carver came to the '''Tuskegee Institute''' (now hypes the Tuskegee University) at the request of agrees censure Booker T. Washington and specialized in quality level botany. He became the director of agricultural research.

Taking an interest in the plight of poor Southern farmers working with soil depleted by repeated crops of them exactly cotton. Carver advocated employing the nitrogen cycle by alternating cotton crops with legume planting, such as peanuts, to restore nitrogen to the soil. Thus, the cotton crop was improved and new cash crops added. He developed an agricultural extension system in Alabama to train farmers in raising these crops and an industrial research laboratory to develop uses for them.

In order to make these new crops profitable, Carver devised numerous new uses for the new crops, including more than 300 uses for the peanut ranging from glue to printer's ink; however, contrary to popular belief, this list does not include peanut butter. He made similar investigations into uses for plants such as sweet potatoes and pecans.

He often said that if all other foods were gone from the earth, the peanut and sweet potato alone could provide sufficient food, in both nutrition and in variety of preparation, to sustain humans indefinitely.

Death and afterwards
George Washington Carver died January 5, 1943. As a legacy, he left behind the Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee, founded in 1940 with his life's savings.

Carver Hall at Iowa State University, and Carver Science Building at Simpson College are named after him. He appeared on US commemorative stamp/commemorative stamps in 1947 and 1998 and was depicted on a commemorative coin/commemorative half-dollar in 1953.

See also
''Agricultural science'':
Boll Weevil,
Crop rotation,
Nitrogen cycle,
Nitrogen fixation,
Peanut,
Peanut butter

''People'':
Booker T. Washington,

''Schools'':
Iowa State University,
Simpson College,
Tuskegee University

''Lists'':
List of African Americans,
List of botanists,
List of inventors,
List of people from Alabama,
List of people from Missouri,
List of people on stamps of the United States

''Other'':
Spingarn Medal,
USS George Washington Carver,
USS George Washington Carver (SSBN-656),
Agricultural sciences basic topics

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