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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
1/2 of the prize
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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