Phi Lambda Upsilon Xi Chapter - University of Pittsburgh Francis Clifford Phillips Lecture Series 1987 Phillips Lecturer Brief Biography of Rudolph Marcus, California Institute of Technology Professor Rudolph A. Marcus was born in Montreal, Canada in 1923 and received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from McGill University. His graduate research, under the direction of C.A. Winkler, was on reactions in solution. After postdoctoral experimental research on free radical reactions with E.W.R. Steacie at the National Research Council of Canada and theoretical research with O.K. Rice at the University of North Carolina, he joined the faculty of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1951. In 1964, he became Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Illinois, and in 1978, Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. In 1960-61 he was a temporary member of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, in 1975-76 Visiting Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Oxford, a Professional Fellow if University College, Oxford, and a Alexander von Humboldt Awardee at the Technical University of Munich. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Marcus is known for his work in many fields of theoretical chemical kinetics, including theories of unimolecular reactions (RRKM theory), electron transfer reactions, electrode reactions, and various transfer reactions, the semiclassical theory of collisions and of bound states, and collision coordinates. Professor Marcus has been the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship, a senior Fullbright-Hayes Scholarship, the Anne Molson Prize in Chemistry of McGill University, the Chandler Medal in Chemistry of Columbia University, the Robinson Medal of the Faraday Division, Royal Society of Chemistry, the Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics of the American Chemical Society, and the 1984/85 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. He has been awarded the honorary degrees of Doctor of Science by the Polytechnic University and by the University of Chicago. Internet: http://chemistry.caltech.edu/faculty/marcus/ [About PLU] [History] [Purpose] [Members] [Minutes] [Phillips Lecture] [Upcoming Events] [To Contact Us] [Home] This page was last revised on September 16, 2002.