Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Writer: Philip Lee Williams, 706/542-8501, phil@franklin.uga.edu
Contact: Henry F. Schaefer III, 706/542-0364, hfs@uga.edu

Nobel laureate Rudolph A. Marcus to deliver lecture Oct. 3 on UGA campus as part of Chemistry Alumni Appreciation events

Athens, Ga. – Rudolph A. Marcus, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will speak Tuesday, Oct. 3, at 5 p.m. in room 400 of the chemistry building on the University of Georgia campus. The event is open free to the public.

Marcus (right), the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, won the Nobel Prize for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems.

Marcus’s appearance at UGA is part of the first-ever day celebrating alumni of the chemistry department here. Graduates of the program will continue the day’s events with a banquet that night at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.

“We’re delighted to have Dr. Marcus, who gives an excellent lecture to a general university audience,” said Henry F. Schaefer III, Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and director of the Center for Computational Chemistry. Schaefer is also an organizer of the alumni events. “There are many exciting developments in chemistry here at UGA, and we hope to discuss these with our alumni at the banquet.”

Marcus is one of the most honored chemists in the world today. In addition to the Nobel Prize, he is the winner of the Irving Langmair and Peter Debye awards from the American Chemical Society; the Willard Gibbs, Theodore William Richards and Pauling medals; and the Remsen and Edgar Fahs Smith awards, also from the ACS.

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