Ernest Just

<html> <head> <title>Ernest Just</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/995/000160515/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Ernest JustAKA Ernest Everett JustBorn: <a href="/lists/744/000106426/" class=proflink>14-Aug</a>-<a href="/lists/882/000105567/" class=proflink>1883</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/451/000069244/" class=proflink>Charleston, SC</a> Died: <a href="/lists/187/000106866/" class=proflink>27-Oct</a>-<a href="/lists/451/000106133/" class=proflink>1941</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/761/000069554/" class=proflink>Washington, DC</a> Cause of death: <a href="/lists/355/000069148/" class=proflink>Cancer - Stomach</a> Remains: Buried, Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Suitland, MD Gender: Male Religion: Christian Race or Ethnicity: Black Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: <a href="/lists/642/000096354/" class=proflink>Biologist</a>Nationality: United States Executive summary: Cell surfaces and egg fertilizationErnest Just finished high school in a special program for "advanced Negroes" at 16, then worked as a day laborer in New York City, earning tuition to attend Kimball Academy, a much better, private school in New Hampshire. He was Kimball's only black student, and became captain of the debating team and class valedictorian. He went on to earn top marks at Dartmouth and the University of Chicago, but could only teach at the historically black and underfunded Howard University. Despite his training in science, he taught English at Howard until there was an opening in the biology department. Still, at Howard he refuted <a href="/people/145/000115797/">Jacques Loeb</a>'s theory of artificial parthenogenesis, and conducted respected research into genetics, cytology, and embryology, with significant works on cell surfaces and walls, and the mechanics of egg fertilization. He was the faculty advisor for the inception of Omega Psi Phi, a national fraternity for black collegiates, which was founded in Just's office at Howard in 1911. In 1915 he was awarded the inaugural Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. But by the 1930s, frustrated at roadblocks within the racially-constricted academic atmosphere in America, he resettled in Europe and married a German woman. He was living in Paris when the Nazis took the city, and was briefly held in an internment camp until being deported to America, where he soon became ill and died of cancer. Father: Charles Frazier Just (dock builder, d. 1887 alcoholism) Mother: Mary Matthews Just (school teacher, m. 19-Sep-1878, d. 1902) Sister: Vivian Just (d. 1884 diptheria) Brother: Hunter Just (b. 1885) Sister: Mary Just (b. 1886) Wife: Ethel Highwarden Just (German language teacher, m. 26-Jun-1912, div., two daughters, one son)) Daughter: Margaret Just Butcher (American Literature Professor, b. 1913) Son: Highwarden Just (school principal) Daughter: Maribel Just Butler (Census Bureau worker) Wife: Hedwig Schnetzler Just (m. 1931, one daughter) Daughter: Elizabeth Just     High School: Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural & Mechanical College (1900)     High School: Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, NH (1903)     University: <a href="/edu/853/000068649/">BA Biology, Dartmouth College (1907)</a>     Teacher: Dunbar High School, Washington, DC (1907-08)     Teacher: <a href="/edu/677/000068473/">English and Biology, Howard University (1908-10)</a>     Scholar: Marine Biological Laboratory (Summers, 1909-30)     Professor: <a href="/edu/677/000068473/">Zoology, Howard University (1910-41)</a>     Professor: <a href="/edu/677/000068473/">Physiology, Howard University (1912-41)</a>     University: <a href="/edu/520/000068316/">PhD Experimental Embryology, University of Chicago (1916)</a>     Scholar: Naples Zoological Station (1929-30)     Scholar: Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Berlin (1930-33)     Scholar: <a href="/edu/746/000068542/">Sorbonne (1938-40)</a>     <a href="/honors/292/000043163/">Spingarn Medal</a> 1915     <a href="/honors/809/000089542/">Rosenwald Fellowship</a> 1920     <a href="/org/517/000041394/">Omega Psi Phi Fraternity</a> Co-founder (1911)     <a href="/org/512/000041389/">Phi Beta Kappa Society</a>     <a href="/event/356/000083107/">Deported</a> to the United States (1941) Author of books: Basic Methods for Experiments on Eggs of Marine Animals (<tt>1939</tt>) The Biology of the Cell Surface (<tt>1939</tt>) Appears on postage stamps: USA, Scott #3058 (32 cents, depicting Just, issued 1-Feb-1996) <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=160515"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=160515">Ernest Just</a></td> </tr> </table> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript. 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