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Rudolph Arthur Marcus
1923 – 2026
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryRudolph Arthur Marcus was a Canadian-born American chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems". Marcus theory, named after him, provides a thermodynamic and kinetic framework for describing one electron outer-sphere electron transfer. He was a professor at Caltech, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
July 21, 1923
Montreal
Date of death
July 16, 2026
Pasadena
Citizenship
Canada · United States
Occupations & fields
chemistuniversity teacher
Awards & honours
Nobel Prize in ChemistryWillard Gibbs AwardACS Award in Theoretical ChemistryNational Medal of ScienceWolf Prize in ChemistryHumboldt Research Fellowship
Notable works
Unimolecular Dissociations and Free Radical Recombination Reactions
- Field and occupation
- kanadský chemik (1923 – 2026)
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