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Rudolph A. Marcus is a Canadian chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theoretical work on electron transfer reactions, which are fundamental chemical processes that occur in everything from photosynthesis to corrosion. His discoveries matter because they provided the mathematical framework scientists needed to understand and predict how electrons move between molecules, helping explain many important natural and industrial chemical processes.
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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. He is a professor at Caltech, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
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