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Rudolph A. Marcus

Chemistry

Rudolph Arthur Marcus was 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. He was a professor at the California Institute of Technology, and the framework he developed for describing electron transfer, known as Marcus theory, became a standard tool in chemical kinetics.

Facts
Birth Year
1923 1
Death Date
2026-07-16 1
Death Year
2026 1
Death Place
Pasadena, United States 1
Nationality
Canada 1
Nationality
United States 1
Notable Work
Unimolecular Dissociations and Free Radical Recombination Reactions 1
Birthplace
Montreal, Canada 1
Field
Field (category)
Chemistry 1
Sources
1. Rudolph A. Marcus (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +2026-07-16T00:00:00Z
  • P570 (date of death): full date
    +2026-07-16T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): Canada
    Q16
  • P20 (place of death): Pasadena, United States
    Q485176
  • P27 (country of citizenship): United States
    Q30
  • P19 (place of birth): Montreal, Canada
    Q340
  • P800 (notable work): Unimolecular Dissociations and Free Radical Recombination Reactions
    Q141147886
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