Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

- Rudolph A. Marcus

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home che…

- Rudolph A. Marcus

I have always loved going to school.

- Rudolph A. Marcus

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…

- Rudolph A. Marcus

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

- Rudolph A. Marcus

After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

- Rudolph A. Marcus

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

- Rudolph A. Marcus

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 polye…

- Rudolph A. Marcus

Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!

- Rudolph A. Marcus