# George Washington Carver

> He turned the peanut into a symbol of self-sufficiency and soil science into a quiet revolution for Southern farmers too poor to keep planting cotton into dust.

*African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1864-01-01
- **Died:** 1943-01-05
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born into slavery around 1864, Carver earned a master's degree and joined Tuskegee Institute as a professor, where he attacked the South's cotton monoculture problem with a farmer's practicality. He taught crop rotation — peanuts, sweet potatoes, anything but cotton — and published over forty bulletins packed with recipes and techniques for working depleted land without money. The Experiment Station under his direction became a lifeline for struggling farmers, black and white. His environmental advocacy and agricultural ingenuity earned him the NAACP's Spingarn Medal and, rare for the era, widespread respect across the color line. Time called him a "Black Leonardo" in 1941, two years before his death.

## Fame
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- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Chemistry, #Biology, #United States, #Americas, #19th Century

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