Rudolph A. Marcus
Rudolph Arthur Marcus, Rudolph "Rudy" Arthur Marcus, Rudolph Marcus, R. A. Marcus, Rudolph A Marcus
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Rudolph Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) is 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 is a professor at Caltech, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
Career
- 1923Born
- 1984Won Wolf Prize in Chemistry
- 1988Won Willard Gibbs Award
- 1989Won National Medal of Science
- 1992Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1997Won ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry
- Member of Royal Society
- Member of National Academy of Sciences
- Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Trivia
- •Place of birth: Montreal
- •Citizenship: Canada, United States
- •Known as: chemist, university teacher
What happened recently
Press Release: Nobel Laureate Rudolph A. Marcus To Present CMU's Second Biennial John A. Pople Lecture in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
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