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Rudolph A. Marcus
Canadian
Scientist
About the author
My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill.
Rudolph A. Marcus,
Canadian
Scientist
#Years
#Mother
Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!
Rudolph A. Marcus,
Canadian
Scientist
#Decision
#Consequences
My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.
Rudolph A. Marcus,
Canadian
Scientist
#Life
#Study
#Reading
#Months
Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!
Rudolph A. Marcus,
Canadian
Scientist
#Life
During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.
Rudolph A. Marcus,
Canadian
Scientist
#Years
#Students
My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).
Rudolph A. Marcus,
Canadian
Scientist
#Education
#School
#Girls
I have always loved going to school.
Rudolph A. Marcus,
Canadian
Scientist
#School
Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.
Rudolph A. Marcus,
Canadian
Scientist
#Parents
#Growing up
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.
Rudolph A. Marcus,
Canadian
Scientist
#Love
#Being
#Experience
#Theory
#Mathematics
After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.
Rudolph A. Marcus,
Canadian
Scientist
#Study
#Attention
#Class
After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.
Rudolph A. Marcus,
Canadian
Scientist
#Life
About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.
Rudolph A. Marcus,
Canadian
Scientist
#Research
My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.
Rudolph A. Marcus,
Canadian
Scientist
#Home
#School
#Interest
#Beginning
#Mathematics