生于: 约1864年(确切的出生日期未知)
死于: 1943年1月5日
乔治华盛顿卡佛约于1864年出生于密苏里州的钻石丛镇(Diamond Grove),双亲是黑奴,他是国内最着名的农业科学家之一,最着名的是针对花生所做的研究、以及对于美国南部穷苦非裔美国农人提供协助的承诺。
卡佛的成年生涯中、多数的时间服务于阿拉巴马州塔斯提吉学院(Tuskegee Institute),1943年卡佛去世后不久,罗斯福总统(Franklin D. Roosevelt) 就在卡佛幼年时期居住的地方创建美国国家纪念馆,这也是首座为非裔美国人成立的国家纪念馆。
George Washington Carver was born a slave in Diamond Grove, Missouri, around 1864. He is one of the nation's most famous agricultural scientists. He is best known for his research on peanuts and his commitment to helping poor Southern African American farmers.
Carver worked at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama for most of his adult life. In 1943, soon after Carver's death, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made Carver's boyhood home a national monument. It was the first national monument to honor an African American.
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