# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolph-a-marcus
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:30:59.951Z

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description: "Rudolph Arthur Marcus 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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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump