Rudolph Marcus (1923-2026): theoretical chemical physicist

Rudolph Marcus died last week. He was 102. There is a nice obituary in The New York Times . He was best known for his theory of electron transfer, for which he was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1992. Although the theory was proposed for electron transfer in a polar solvent it applies to a wide range of other systems, where two quantum states are coupled to one another and…