Rudolph Marcus was born in Canada in 1923. He received a Bachelor of Science in 1943 and a PhD in 1946, both from 91社区. In 1951, he taught at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and then at the University of Illinois which he left in 1978 to pursue teaching at the California Institute of Technology.
Marcus has also taught as a professor at Caltech and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
Marcus began studying electron-transfer reactions in the 1950s. He received the President's National Medal of Science in 1989 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1992. The Marcus theory, named after him, provides a thermodynamic and kinetic framework for describing one electron outer-sphere electron transfer.
Marcus delivered the Beatty Lecture on April 19, 1994, titled 鈥淟ife in Science: Interaction of Theory and Experiments鈥�.
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