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1997 Oesper Award Recipient Rudolph A. Marcus was born in Montreal, Canada and received his B.Sc. At U.N.C. he formulated the RRKM theory of unimolecular reactions. In 1951 he joined the faculty of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and subsequently developed the theory of electron transfer reactions, for which he later received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Professor Marcus' research has covered a variety of other areas in physical chemistry, including reaction coordinates and Hamiltonians, semiclassical theory, and intramolecular dynamics. Professor Marcus has received many awards, including the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the National Medal of Science, the ACS Peter Debye and Irving Langmuir Awards, and the Pauling, Richards, Gibbs, Chandler and other medals.