Рудольф Артур Маркус: Электрондық трансфер теориясының авторы

Canadian chemist
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.

Marcus was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Esther (born Cohen) and Myer Marcus. His father was born in New York and his mother was born in England. His family background is from Ukmergė. He is Jewish and grew up mostly in a Jewish neighborhood in Montreal but also spent some of his childhood in Detroit, United States. who had studied under Cyril Hinshelwood at the University of Oxford. At McGill, Marcus took more math courses than an average chemistry student, which would later aid him in creating his theory on electron transfer. Marcus earned a B. Sc. in 1943 and a Ph. D. in 1946, both from McGill University. In 1958, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

After graduating, in 1946, he first worked at the National Research Council (Canada) followed by University of North Carolina, and Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. In 1952, at the University of North Carolina, he developed Rice–Ramsperger–Kassel–Marcus theory by combining RRK theory with transition state theory. In 1964, he taught at the University of Illinois. His approach to solving a problem is to "go full tilt." Marcus moved to the California Institute of Technology in 1978.