Russell Earl Marker
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American chemist
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Chemistry
Russell Earl Marker's Degrees
- Bachelors Chemistry University of Maryland, College Park
- PhD Chemistry University of Maryland, College Park
Why Is Russell Earl Marker Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Russell Earl Marker was an American chemist who invented the octane rating system when he was working at the Ethyl Corporation. Later in his career, he went on to found a steroid industry in Mexico when he successfully made semisynthetic progesterone from chemical constituents found in Mexican yams in a process known as Marker degradation. This eventually led to the development at Syntex of the combined oral contraceptive pill and synthetic cortisone – and to the development of the Mexican barbasco trade.
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