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Rudolph A. Marcus

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolph A. Marcus is the 272nd most popular chemist (up from 305th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Canada (up from 96th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Rudolph A. Marcus ranks 272 out of 602. Before him are Edwin G. Krebs, Emil Erlenmeyer, Fraser Stoddart, Franz Karl Achard, Elias James Corey, and Georg Brandt. After him are Joachim Sauer, Joseph L. Goldstein, Ben Feringa, Akira Yoshino, Paul Ulrich Villard, and Martin Karplus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Rudolph A. Marcus ranks 66. Before him are Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Antonio Quarracino, Horst Tappert, Agatha Barbara, Merton Miller, and Victoria de los Ángeles. After him are Rasul Gamzatov, Koji Miyata, Cliff Robertson, Zlatko Čajkovski, Chaleo Yoovidhya, and Walter M. Miller Jr..

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Rudolph A. Marcus ranks 72 out of 1,622. Before him are Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879), Dan Aykroyd (1952), David H. Hubel (1926), John Ireland (1914), Charles Brenton Huggins (1901), and The Weeknd (1990). After him are Elizabeth Arden (1878), Glenn Ford (1916), Mark Robson (1913), John Candy (1950), John Charles Fields (1863), and Ryan Reynolds (1976).

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Among CHEMISTS In Canada

Among chemists born in Canada, Rudolph A. Marcus ranks 4. Before him are William Giauque (1895), Sidney Altman (1939), and Henry Taube (1915). After him are Maud Menten (1879), and Martin Kamen (1913).

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