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Ernest is best known for his pioneering work in developing certain techniques in a number of areas of physiology. These included advancements in fertilization, experimental parthenogenesis, cell division, hydration, diversion, dehydration of cells and UV carcinogenic radiation effects on cells.
Ernest Just was also the editor for no less than three scholarly periodicals and a Julius Rosenwald Fellow in Biology allowing him to work in Europe. Ernest published many papers during his time in Europe included his contributions to the 1924 textbook “General Cytology”.
Brief biography: His father died when Ernest was young leaving his moth in need of finding work to raise him and his sister. She worked as a teacher in an African American school in Charleston and also worked in the local phosphate mines during the summer.
Much of his youth was also plagued by disease including suffering from typhoid for six weeks. This badly affected his memory requiring him to re-learn how to read and write.
Ernest graduated magna cum laude with an honors degree in zoology from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
During his time in Europe, Ernest was actually conducting research in France during the German invasion. He spent some time in POW camp before being rescued and returned to the U.S. in 1940.
His health had been in steep decline prior to the invasion but his imprisonment worsened his condition. He died in October 1941 of pancreatic cancer.
