“We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate domains we abstract from the unity of Nature, this unity remains. Although we may deal with particulars, we return finally to the whole pattern woven out of these.” – Ernest Everett Just
Point 1
Earnest Everett Just was born on August 14, 1883, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Charles Frazier and Mary Matthews Just. He was only 4 years old when his father died.
Point 2
In 1896, Just was sent to attend the high school of the Colored Normal Industrial, Agricultural & Mechanical College (later named South Carolina State University). He believed that he would receive a better education by attending a predominately white school up north, so in 1900, he enrolled in Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire.
Point 3
Upon graduating from Kimball Union, he entered Dartmouth College in 1903 and graduated magna cum laude in biology in 1907 and took a minor in history. He was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He taught at Howard University as an instructor of rhetoric and English and in 1910 later joined the Department of Biology. He was appointed Professor in the Department in 1912. While at Howard Just helped to found Omega Psi Phi Fraternity in 1911.
Point 4
In 1916 he received his doctorate from the University of Chicago. He published 50 scientific papers and two influential books, Basic Methods for Experiments on Eggs of Marine Mammals (1922) and Biology of the Cell Surface (1939). After receiving his doctorate in the United States, he wasn’t able to find work. So, he moved to Europe and continued his research in Naples, Italy. In 1930, however, Just became the first American to be invited to conduct research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, Germany. His research ended when the Nazis took control of Germany in 1933. Just relocated to Paris, France to continue his research.
Point 5
He married Ethel Highwarden in 1912 and they had three children. Due to his absence, the marriage suffered and they divorced in 1939. Immediately afterwards, he married a German nationalist named Maid Hedwig Schnetzler. He died on October 27, 1941 in Washington, D.C., shortly after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Works cited
Ernest Everett Just – Scientist, Educator, Biologist – Biography
Just, Ernest Everett (1883-1941) | The Black Past: Remembered and …
Ernest Everett Just – Wikipedia