Russell Earl Marker became a famous figure in the science world in the 1930s. Marker
was the co-founder of a multi-billion dollar business, the Syntex Corporation. The Syntex
Corporation was a pharmaceutical company that was formed in 1944 in Mexico. The idea of this
company was to make therapeutic steroids from specific Mexican yams. Marker did other things
as well, including his studies of steroidal hormones. Marker impacted the science world in a
numerous ways helping our world today.
Marker was born in 1902 on March 12 where he grew up in Maryland. In 1926 Marker
married his wife, Mildred Collins. His wife then inspired and supported him to work as an
analytical chemist, which is someone who studies and uses instruments…show more content… Only a short year later, in 1944,
Syntex Corporation was made to start the production of Progesterone. May of 1945, a dispute
broke out in the company leading to Marker leaving the company. This caused him to start a new
company, doing the same type of production, but named it Botanica-mex in a place near Mexico
City. This company then began to make several kilos of progesterone. In 1946, Botanica-mex
crashed and was turned into another new company now called Hormonosynth. During this time,
the plant was replaced by a different yam. This new yam was called barbasco and also contained
up to five hundred percent more diosgenin. Marker later retired and the company was taken over
and renamed Diosynth. Through all the changes of the company’s Marker never lost his fame.
Marker had a numerous amount of person goals and perseverance that led him to all his
accomplishments. He learned to be single minded and do his best in everything he did. Marker
did many different studies and a lot of research to help him discover the progesterone. Marker
was also known to have a talent in studying hormones and this type of medicine. Shortly after…show more content… Marker’s discovery of birth control is
something that people didn’t acknowledge as much as they did the progesterone. Marker was one
of the most accomplishing, intelligent, chemists in our world. Marker impacted the science world
