Rudolph A. Marcus

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And going back to what we were saying before about, um, sort of building on other prizes, that, um, Rudy Marcus won the Nobel Prize in 1992 for electron transfer stuff.

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Now, remember, again, this parabola is x squared.

And this is what Rudolf Marcus had envisioned when he was studying this and trained at McGill University in Montreal and then at Caltech in California.

This is known as the amount of energy that has to be displaced in the system for it to be perfectly aligned so that this electron will now move over to the acceptor side.

And that involves all these protein side chains being moved in the right position, the actual molecule itself having to be moved into the position, and the solvents around it.

So here's the actual experiment that was published in 1988, and it showed exactly when they tried to have these electrons be donated here, and they could actually control the amount of speed that this happens.

This is exactly the curve that they achieved.

And Marcus, Rudolf Marcus, who was at Caltech, basically was proven correct.

And this is him getting his Nobel Prize in 1992 because he was able to accurately describe exactly how electrons transfer.

What we're talking about is a paradigm shift in our understanding about how light affects our metabolism, specifically infrared light.

We've actually worked with Nobel Prize winning scientist Dr. Rudolf Marcus at Caltech, who interestingly just in the last month or so passed away.

So we really talked to him right at the end of his life.

He was 102.