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Rudolph A. Marcus
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Canadian chemist
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Rudolph A. Marcus is a male chemist and university teacher born in Montreal in 1923. He holds citizenship in Canada and the United States and resides in Montreal. Marcus earned a Doctor of Philosophy from McGill University and has worked at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, California Institute of Technology, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He speaks English.
He is a member of the Royal Society, National Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Royal Society of Canada. His awards include the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Willard Gibbs Award, National Medal of Science, and Wolf Prize in Chemistry. He is recognized in the Royal Society, Nobel Laureates, Nobel Chemistry, American Academy Arts Sciences, and National Medal Of Science collections.
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Vinony catalogs Rudolph A. Marcus in its Nobel Prize in Chemistry collection (198 entries). It also appears in National Medal of Science.
Vinony's link graph records 694 inbound references to Rudolph A. Marcus, and connects out to University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Linus Pauling and Carolyn Bertozzi.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1992
“for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems”
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Arthur
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Montreal
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Remsen Award
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- chemistry
- Image
- Prof. Dr. Rudolph A. Marcus.jpg
- Residence
- Montreal
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- member of
- American Physical Society
- Commons category
- Rudolph A. Marcus
- date of birth
- 1923-07-21
- Erdős number
- 4
- subject has role
- centenarian
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Education and early life
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