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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986
"for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"
Dudley R. Herschbach
Yuan T. Lee
John C. Polanyi
1/3 of the prize
1/3 of the prize
1/3 of the prize
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USA
Canada
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
b. 1932
b. 1936
(in Hsinchu, Taiwan)
b. 1929
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