Interview with Professor Rudolph Marcus by Professor Sture Forsén at the meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, June 2000.

Family background, encouragement to study, and interest in mathematics; the time after McGill University: theoretical research (8.54); teaching at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Caltech and the research on electron-transfer reactions (20.36); comments on the HUGO project and the future of biochemistry (28.20).