1923 - Today
Rudolph Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolph A. Marcus has received more than 160,099 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Rudolph A. Marcus is the 286th most popular chemist (down from 276th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Canada (down from 66th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Chemist.
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Among chemists, Rudolph A. Marcus ranks 286 out of 510. Before him are Carl Gustaf Mosander, Richard Abegg, Ben Feringa, Ryōji Noyori, Satoshi Ōmura, and Donald J. Cram. After him are Edwin G. Krebs, Antoine Baumé, Clemens Winkler, Alexander Shulgin, Rasmus Bartholin, and Joseph L. Goldstein.
1797 - 1858
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 280
1869 - 1910
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 281
1951 - Present
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 282
1938 - Present
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 283
1935 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 284
1919 - 2001
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 285
1923 - Present
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 286
1918 - 2009
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 287
1728 - 1804
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 288
1838 - 1904
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 289
1925 - 2014
HPI: 66.69
Rank: 290
1625 - 1698
HPI: 66.67
Rank: 291
1940 - Present
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 292
Among people born in 1923, Rudolph A. Marcus ranks 88. Before him are Hwang Jang-yop, Sergey Akhromeyev, Leonid Gaidai, Victoria de los Ángeles, Ousmane Sembène, and Zlatko Čajkovski. After him are Antony Flew, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, Chuck Yeager, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, and Ernst Nolte.
1923 - 2010
HPI: 67.40
Rank: 82
1923 - 1991
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 83
1923 - 1993
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 84
1923 - 2005
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 85
1923 - 2007
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 86
1923 - 1998
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 87
1923 - Present
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 88
1923 - 2010
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 89
1923 - 1990
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 90
1923 - 1968
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 91
1923 - 2020
HPI: 66.76
Rank: 92
1923 - 2008
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 93
1923 - 2016
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 94
Among people born in Canada, Rudolph A. Marcus ranks 75 out of 1,130. Before him are Mike Myers (1963), Carrie-Anne Moss (1967), Geneviève Bujold (1942), Yvonne De Carlo (1922), Rachel McAdams (1978), and Mylène Farmer (1961). After him are Edward Dmytryk (1908), Justin Bieber (1994), Lester B. Pearson (1897), Victor Garber (1949), Norman Jewison (1926), and John Candy (1950).
1963 - Present
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 69
1967 - Present
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 70
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 71
1922 - 2007
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 72
1978 - Present
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 73
1961 - Present
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 74
1923 - Present
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 75
1908 - 1999
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 76
1994 - Present
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 77
1897 - 1972
HPI: 66.81
Rank: 78
1949 - Present
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 79
1926 - Present
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 80
1950 - 1994
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 81
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).
1895 - 1982
HPI: 71.44
Rank: 1
1939 - Present
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 2
1915 - 2005
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 3
1923 - Present
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 4
1879 - 1960
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 5