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George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver was a scientist who revolutionized agriculture in the Southern United States. He encouraged poor farmers to grow alternative crops to cotton such as peanuts and sweet potatoes.

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What did George Washington Carver experiment?

George Washington Carver would experiment on insects, peanuts, yams, soybeans, mushrooms, and all sorts of other plants.

What did George Washington Carver die from?

Some say he had a heart attack some say he fell down the stairs. Some say he had a heart attack while falling down the stairs.

What is George Washington Carver known for?

George Washington Carver is known for creating 105 popular recipes using peanuts, and for discovering more than a hundred useful products that could also be made from peanuts. He also studied the uses of cotton and sweet potatoes.

Some of the materials he created were cosmetics, dyes, paints, plastics, gasoline, and even nitroglycerin (for dynamite).

In addition to his agricultural and chemistry contributions, Carver was an avid proponent of African-American rights, and received the Springarn Medal in 1923 from the NAACP.

Did George Washington Carver have a dad?

yes, but

he died before he could touch his baby boys soft baby face. :[

Is George Washington Carver related to George Washington?

No, George Washington Carver was not related to George Washington; he was merely named after George Washington, or possibly Booker T. Washington, who hired him at the age of 32 to teach agriculture.

How did George Washington Carver benefit society?

I dont know thought someone else would answer.

He did many works with plants like the sweet patatoe and peanuts

How did George Washington carver change the world of science?

G W Carver was a scientist and technologist who was driven to apply scientific methods to directly help people's lives.

George Carver was a gifted speaker and could spellbind audiences. He became one of a handful of Americans to be elected to the English Academy of Science. People sometimes expected little of him because of his race, and they quickly found that he was a fascinating author, gifted inventor, and powerful promoter.

He is best known for his obsession with peanuts. He completed important work in many areas of nutrition, botany, and gardening.

Why is George Washington Carver important?

He found lots of uses for peanuts. He won over 300 awards because of this.

Did George Washington Carver have a nickname?

George Washington Carver was nicknamed "The Peanut Man" and "The Plant Doctor." This is because he always had a strong interest in botany.
yes

What were George Washington Carver instrest?

George Washington Carver loved to study nature and became a botanist.

Why did George Washington Carver never get married?

Chances are he was to busy inventing things, but it might be because he never found the right one.

What job did George Washington Carver have?

American scientist, botanist and inventor, George Washington Carver headed the agricultural department at Tuskegee Institute, a historically black college, for 47 years. He established a mobile classroom that enabled him to educate farmers. He also administered the Agricultural Experiment Station Farms.

Charles Darwin observed that instead of being perfect and unchanging individuals in a species show what?

Individuals in a species show variation, which is a key concept in Darwin's theory of evolution. This variation can arise from genetic differences or environmental influences, and it provides the raw material for natural selection to act upon, leading to the evolution of species over time.

What was George Washington carver's wife name?

George Washington Carver never married. He also did not have any children. He lived as a bachelor until his death in 1943. He was an agricultural scientist who did research work on the peanut plant and was also the head of the Agriculture Department at Tuskegee.

What were some obstacles that George Washington Carver had?

George Washington Carver faced obstacles such as slavery and racism throughout his life.

How did George Washington Carver get rid of slavery?

He did not get rid of slavery--that happened after the Civil War. What he did do was overcome growing up in a sharecropping family to become a renowned researcher and teacher at Tuskegee.

How did George Washington Carver make an impact on other people's lives?

By creating a way to put the proper minerals back in the soil. Without that the south would've turned into a barren wasteland and the world would have even bigger farming and global warming issues. He also discovered the peanut and found over one hundred uses for peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes.

Where did George Washington Carver die?

Upon returning from home one day, Carver took a bad fall down a flight of stairs; he was found unconscious by a maid who took him to a hospital. Carver died January 5, 1943 at the age of 78 from complications (anemia) resulting from this fall. He died at Tuskegee Alabama.
Tuskegee, Alabama