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George Washington Carver, half-length portrait, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, 1906. [Carver was an agricultural scientist and inventor, and a professor at the Tuskegee Institute. He developed techniques to improve soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton, and promoted environmentalism. Carver was the most prominent black scientist of the early 20th century].