All Rudolph A. Marcus Quotes
- During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry. Chemistry
- 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… Beginning
- 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… Background
- 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… Attention
- After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began. Began
- My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate). Baron
- Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience. Basic
- Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents. Child
- I have always loved going to school. Always Loved
- Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while! Easier
- About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there… Aspect
- 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… Campus
- 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… Believe