RARE "Nobel Prize in Chemistry" Rudolph Marcus Hand Signed Bookplate Mueller COA

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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
. He is a professor at
Caltech
,
Nanyang Technological University
,
Singapore
and a member of the
International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
. Marcus was born in
Montreal
,
Quebec
, the son of Esther (born Cohen) and Myer Marcus. His interest in the sciences began at a young age. He excelled at mathematics at
Baron Byng High School
. He then studied at McGill University under Dr. Carl A. Winkler, who had studied under
Cyril Hinshelwood
at the
University of Oxford
. At McGill, Marcus took more math courses than an average chemistry student, which would later aid him in creating his theory on electron transfer.
He earned a
B.Sc.
in 1943 and a
Ph.D.
in 1946, both from
McGill University
. In 1958, Marcus became a
naturalized citizen
of the United States. After graduating, in 1946, he first worked at the
National Research Council (Canada)
followed by
University of North Carolina
, and
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
. In 1952, at the
University of North Carolina
, he developed
Rice–Ramsperger–Kassel–Marcus
theory by combining RRK theory with
transition state theory
. In 1964, he taught at the
University of Illinois
.
Electron transfer is one of the simplest forms of a chemical reaction. It consists of one outer-sphere electron transfer between substances of the same atomic structure likewise to Marcus’s studies between bivalent and trivalent iron ions. Electron transfer may be one of the most basic forms of chemical reaction but without it life cannot exist. Electron transfer is used in all respiratory functions as well as photosynthesis. In the process of oxidizing food molecules, 2 hydrogen ions, 2 electrons, and an oxygen molecule react to make an exothermic reaction as well as H
2
O (water). Due to fact that electron transfer is such a broad, common, as well as essential reaction within nature, Marcus's theory has become vital within the field of chemistry.