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Rudolph A. Marcus
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Rudolph A. Marcus

1923 – 2026 · aged 103

Canadian-American chemist (1923-2026)

Born
21 Jul 1923 · Montreal
Died
16 Jul 2026 · Pasadena
Part ofCanada1690 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 118 years
  1. 21 Jul 1923BornBorn in Montreal
  2. 1978AwardIrving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics
  3. 1984AwardWolf Prize in Chemistry
  4. 1987AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  5. 1988AwardCentenary Prize
  6. 1988AwardPeter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry
  7. 1988AwardWillard Gibbs Award
  8. 1989AwardNational Medal of Science
  9. 1991AwardLinus Pauling Award
  10. 1991AwardRemsen Award
  11. 1992AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  12. 1994AwardLavoisier Medal
  13. 1997AwardACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry
  14. 16 Jul 2026DiedDied in Pasadena

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1923 – 2026).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Rudolph Arthur Marcus (July 21, 1923 – July 16, 2026) was 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 was a professor at Caltech, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

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