Rudolph A. Marcus

Rudy Marcus
Rudy Marcus
	Rudy Marcus in 2005
Born	Rudolph Arthur Marcus; July 21, 1923; Montreal, Quebec
Nationality	American, Canadian
Citizenship	United States, Canada
Alma mater	McGill University (BSc, PhD)
Known for	Marcus theory; RRKM theory
Spouse	Laura Hearne (m. 1949; died 2003)
Children	3
Awards	Irving Langmuir Award (1978); ForMemRS (1987); Centenary Prize (1988); Peter Debye Award (1988); National Medal of Science (1989); Linus Pauling Award (1991); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1992); Oesper Award (1997);
	Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	New York University Tandon School of Engineering; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; California Institute of Technology;
Thesis	Studies on the conversion of PHX to AcAn (1946)
Doctoral advisor	Carl A. Winkler
Doctoral students	Gregory A. Voth
Other notable students	Postdocs: Ramakrishna Ramaswamy;
Website	www.cce.caltech.edu/content/rudolph-rudy-marcus

Rudolph Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) is a Canadian-born U.S. 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.

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