Opinion: Basking in the big glow of Caltech’s Rudy Marcus at 100
“Well, you get invited to all sorts of things. It changes your life in terms of what the possibilities are. Then you have to make the decision about what you want to do, whether you really want to spend your time that way, or whether you want to get back to what you really enjoy so much.”“Well, you turn down some things, yeah, but I don’t know that it’s a pain. I wouldn’t put it that way!”
All three of Marcus’s sons also went on to earn doctorates — and all three in history, interestingly. His son Alan, a cultural historian who teaches at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, was sitting with us at the family table, and said: “An allied question, Dad, because for you it was never about the awards, it was all about solving problems.
“I don’t think so,” Rudy said. “Not by the people who count. I mean, your work, either people agree with it, or they don’t, it depends. But I don’t know. Probably with some people, the Nobel is the something, so probably your work has to be right. What I noticed most was invitations to the kinds of things I would never get before.”“Probably some do,” he murmured back, with a smile.
Friday, his 100th birthday, hundreds of friends and colleagues — some former students who flew halfway around the world — gathered for a celebratory Ath lunch, followed by symposia — one called “Electron Transfer Chains in a Glass of Wine. Here’s to You, Rudy!” — and an Ath dinner. Rudy’s is a beautiful glow to bask in.
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