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Kenichi Fukui
1981 Chemistry

* 1918 in Nara, Japan
+ 1998 in Kyoto

   


Kenichi Fukui


Kenichi Fukui was a Japanese chemist,
known as the first Asian person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Fukui was co-recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roald Hoffmann,
for their independent investigations into the mechanisms of chemical reactions..



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