Roy Summerford (summero@mail.auburn.edu)

CAL-TECH PROFESSOR TO RECEIVE KOSOLAPOFF AWARD FROM AU

AUBURN -- Nobel Laureate Rudolph A. Marcus has been named recipient of Auburn University's 1996 G.M. Kosolapoff Award in Chemistry.

The California Institute of Technology professor will receive the award and present the annual Kosolapoff Award Lecture at 8 p.m., on Monday, May 13, in the Chemistry Building Auditorium.

The public lecture, "Adventures in Theory: Electron Transfer and Unimolecular Reaction Rate Theories," will examine the work which led to Marcus winning the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Marcus will also present a technical lecture on transfer reactions in chemistry and biology at 3:45 p.m., May 14, in the Chemistry Building Auditorium.

The G.M. Kosolopoff Award was established in 1986 is now sponsored by Bayer Corporation. Kosolopoff was a Russian emigre who was a leader in industrial research chemistry in the 1930s and 1940s and a nationally recognized member of Auburn's chemistry faculty from 1948 until his death in 1976.

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