Marcus, Rudolph A

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Marcus, Rudolph A
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(1923– ). An American who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1992 for his theories of electron transfer. The processes Marcus has studied, the transfer of electrons between molecules in solution, underlie a number of exceptionally important chemical phenomena, and the practical consequences of his theory extend over all areas of chemistry. The Marcus theory describes, and makes predictions concerning, such widely differing phenomena as the fixation of light energy by green plants, photochemical production of fuel, chemiluminescence (‘cold light‘), the conductivity of electrically conducting polymers, corrosion, the methodology of electrochemical synthesis and analysis, and more.