Awards & Winners

Rudolph A. Marcus

Date of Birth 21-July-1923
Place of Birth Montreal
(Canada, Urban agglomeration of Montreal, Québec)
Nationality Canada, United States of America
Also know as Rudolph Marcus
Profession Scientist, Chemist
Rudolph Arthur Marcus is a Canadian-born 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.

Awards by Rudolph A. Marcus

Check all the awards nominated and won by Rudolph A. Marcus.

1992


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems)

1989


National Medal of Science for Chemistry
(For his fundamental, far-reaching, and eminently useful developments of theories of unimolecular reactions and of electron transfers in chemistry and biochemistry.)

1984


Wolf Prize in Chemistry
(for his contributions to chemical kinetics, especially the theories of unimolecular reactions and electron transfer reactions.)