Chemistry Quote by Rudolph A. Marcus

Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

I have always loved going to school.

— Rudolph A. Marcus

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

— 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…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close -…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

— 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…

— 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…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

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

— Rudolph A. Marcus

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

— Rudolph A. Marcus

My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

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

— Rudolph A. Marcus