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Rudolph A. Marcus

1923 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolph A. Marcus has received more than 218,191 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Rudolph A. Marcus is the 305th most popular chemist (down from 291st in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Canada (down from 89th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Rudolph A. Marcus ranks 305 out of 602. Before him are Antoine Baumé, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Tapputi, Martin Lowry, Leopold Gmelin, and Kristian Birkeland. After him are Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Yuan T. Lee, Thomas Cech, Alexander Shulgin, and J. D. Bernal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Rudolph A. Marcus ranks 90. Before him are Ousmane Sembène, Valentina Cortese, André Gorz, Richard Pipes, Yaşar Kemal, and Uri Avnery. After him are Uziel Gal, Bettie Page, Otfried Preußler, Masao Ono, Sergey Akhromeyev, and Ernst Nolte.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Rudolph A. Marcus ranks 96 out of 1,622. Before him are Robbie Robertson (1943), Michael Ironside (1950), Marie-Louise Meilleur (1880), Wayne Gretzky (1961), Norman Bethune (1890), and Jack L. Warner (1892). After him are Norma Shearer (1902), Nathan Fillion (1971), Marc Ouellet (1944), Louis Slotin (1910), Maurice Richard (1921), and David Morrell (1943).

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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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