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Rudolph's Life And Accomplishments

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Biography Born July 21, 1923 in Montréal, Quebec to mother Esther and to Father Myer Marcus, Rudolf A. Marcus is a Canadian Scientist. From a young age Rudolph was an exceptional student at Byron Byng High school where he excelled in Mathematics. Rudolph completed his studies under Dr. Carl Winker at McGill university taking courses in Math and Chemistry which helped him eventually win the Nobel Prize for the theory he had developed on the transfer of electrons. By the age of 20 he had earned his Bachelor in Science and His PhD by the age of 23. Marcus theory of electron transfer Rudolph began his research on the electron transfer in the 1950s. Rudolph investigated what the role of solvent surroundings in redox reaction play when determining

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