Biography of ernest evere

Dr. Ernest E. Just was an eminent biologist and author recognized worldwide for his work unlocking the role of the cell surface in the development of organisms. He published some fifty scientific papers and two influential books, Basic Methods for Experiments on Eggs of Marine Mammals (1922) and Biology of the Cell Surface (1939).

Born on August 14, 1883, in Charleston, South Carolina, Just was only four years old when his father, Charles Fraser Just, died in 1887.

Due to mounting debt, his mother, Mary Just, and her children moved from Charleston to James Island, a Gullah community off the coast of South Carolina, to work in its phosphate mines. Mary Just became a highly respected leader of the community and convinced a number of residents on the island to purchase land and start their own community.

The residents renamed the community Maryville in her honor.

In 1896, Just was sent to attend the high school of the Colored Normal Industrial, Agricultural & Mechanical College (