Rudolph A. Marcus

Rudolph A. Marcus
Marcus in 2005
Born	Rudolph Arthur Marcus (1923-07-21) July 21, 1923 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nationality	Canadian American
Education	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) Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1985) 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	"Caltech Division of Chemistry: Rudolph A. Marcus". Archived from the original on January 15, 2018.

Rudolph Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) 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.