Noyes, Arthur

Noyes, Arthur Amos. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. X, Charles Coulston Gillespie, ed., Charles Scribner s Sons, New York, (1974), pp. 156-157. 

Noyes, Arthur A. The Supply of Nitrogen Products for the Manufacture of Explosives. In The New World of Science, edited by Robert M. Yerkes, 123-33. New York Century Company, 1920. 

Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA... 

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D. MacKenzie assisted with the (ButtN)2MgXllf emission lifetime measurements. Research at the California Institute of Technology was supported by National Science Foundation Grants CHE78-10530 and CHE81-20419. This is Contribution No. 6703 from the Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory. 

Physical chemistry began to prosper partly from institutional and industrial causes. Some students who set out to study organic chemistry in the late nineteenth century were dissuaded from their aim by overcrowded conditions in the instructional and research laboratories. One example is Arthur A. Noyes, who was to establish the first physical chemistry research laboratory in America at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He set out for Germany in 1888 with his friend Samuel Mulliken, father of the later theoretical and quantum chemist, Robert Mulliken. 

Acknowledgement. We thank David Beratan and Jay Winkler for helphil discussions. Our research on electron transfer in proteins is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. NRSA/NIH postdoctoral fellowships were held by M. J. T., J. C, and A. L. R. and a Medical Research Council (Canada) postdoctoral fellowship was held by B. E. B. This is contribution no. 8115 from the Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory. 

Rudolph A. Marcus is perhaps the most famous theoretician to be raised in Canada. He has received many awards, most notably the 1992 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Marcus was born in Montreal. He received a B.Sc. degree in chemistry from McGill University in 1943, and a Ph.D. degree from the same institution in 1946. After doing postdoctoral research at the National Research Council of Canada and at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he became a professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1951 to 1964 and at the University of Illinois from 1964 to 1978, when he was named the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. His seminal contributions to the realms of electron transfer theory and intramolecular dynamics continue to earn him honors, including the 1997 ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry. 

We thank F. C. Anson and F. J. Grunthaner for helpful discussions. Research on blue copper proteins at the California Institute of Technology has been supported by the National Science Foundation. This paper is contribution no. 5366 from the Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics. 

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