Russell Earl Marker papers, 1919-1984.

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Russell Earl Marker papers, 1919-1984.

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The collection consists chiefly of letters, scrapbooks, books, articles, photographs, and objects relating to Marker's career as an organic chemist and pioneer in the steroid chemistry industry. The bulk of the materials documents his gradual rediscovery by the popular press and the scientific community after his retirement from chemistry in 1949. While copies of Marker's published scientific papers are included in the collection, there are no research notebooks or substantial primary source materials from the period when he was actively involved in research. Correspondence, 1928-1969, details employment by the Rockefeller Institute and Penn State; correspondence, 1969-1984, documents reestablishing his ties with the scientific community and the Syntex Corporation, which he co- founded. Included are copies of several of Marker's patents, 1940-1941, his master's thesis, 1924, dissertation, 1928, published papers, 1933-1943, and a copy of his reminiscences, "The Early Production of Steroidal Hormones," 1983. Articles by Pedro A. Lehmann and others from the Mexican and American chemical journals provide the bulk of the biographical information about Marker. Also, includes clippings, magazine and scientific articles, and books documenting Marker's treatment by the popular and scientific press, 1937-1984. Also, includes photographs, scrapbooks, and artifacts reflecting his career, honors by the scientific community, and his subsequent interest in silversmiths and fine reproductions of European silver pieces. The collection contains spatulas, thermometers, and the bowie knife he used to dig up the first yams in Mexico, used to produce progesterone; silver trays presented to Marker by chemical congresses; and two oil portraits of Marker, 1974. Related to the collection are tape recordings of the first Russell E. Marker lectures delivered by Professor Carl Djerassi in 1984.

3.8 cubic ft.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Djerassi, Carl.

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University research scientist and industrialist, Djerassi is most famous for synthesizing the first oral contraceptive. Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1923, he emigrated to the United States in 1939. He received his B.A. in 1942 from Kenyon College and worked briefly with the Ciba Phamaceutical Company before receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He taught at Wayne State University in Detroit and worked at the pharmaceutical company Syntex in Mexico before joining the Stanfo...

Lehmann, Pedro A.

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Pennsylvania state university

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The Pennsylvania Humanities Council designated the year 1985 as "The Year of the Pennsylvania Writer." The PHC funded projects in eight locations throughout the Commonwealth to gain appreciation, understanding, and recognition for past and present Pennsylvania writers. The State College/University Park location held a two-stage conference and related events by five Centre County regional organizations. From the description of The Year of the Pennsylvania writer collection, 1984-1986....

Marker, Russell Earl, 1902-1995

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Marker, a professor of organic chemistry, 1934-1943, at Pennsylvania State University, developed a natural source of progesterone which made possible the birth control pill. From the description of Russell Earl Marker papers, 1919-1984. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 31026229 Born in Hagerstown, Maryland on 12 March 1902. Died on 3 March 1995, Wernersville, Pennsylvania. Education: B.S., Chemistry, University of Maryland (1923), M.S., Chemistr...