Rudolph arthur marcus biography channel

Canadian-born American chemist and Nobel laureate

Rudolph Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) is a Canadian-born American chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry^[3] "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems".^[4]Marcus theory, named after him, provides a thermodynamic and kinetic framework for describing one electron outer-sphere electron transfer.^[5][6][7] He is a professor at Caltech, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

Rudolph A. Marcus – NAS - National Academy of Sciences

Education and early life

Marcus was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Esther (born Cohen) and Myer Marcus. His father was born in New York and his mother was born in England. His family background is from Ukmergė (Lithuania).^[8] He is Jewish^[9] and grew up mostly in a Jewish neighborhood in Montreal but also spent some of his ch ‪Rudolph A.

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