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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981

"for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions"
Kenichi Fukui Roald Hoffmann
Kenichi Fukui Roald Hoffmann
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
Japan USA
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan		 Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
b. 1918
d. 1998		 b. 1937
(in Zloczov, Poland)
 
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