The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992
Awarded on: 1992-10-14
"for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems"
Affiliations:
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech) – Pasadena, CA, USA
Rudolph A. Marcus
Born: 1923-07-21 in Montreal, Canada
Gender: male
Field: Canadian-born American chemist and Nobel laureate
Biography
Rudolph Arthur Marcus 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.