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 me that I would go to McGill.

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 particular problem.

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

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.