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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956

"for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
United Kingdom USSR
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom		 Institute for Chemical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
Moscow, USSR
b. 1897
d. 1967		 b. 1896
d. 1986
 
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