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

1. 1923
   Born
2. 1984
   Won Wolf Prize in Chemistry
3. 1988
   Won Willard Gibbs Award
4. 1989
   Won National Medal of Science
5. 1992
   Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry
6. 1997
   Won ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry
7. Member of Royal Society
8. Member of National Academy of Sciences
9. Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Montreal
• •Citizenship: Canada, United States
• •Known as: chemist, university teacher