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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
1/2 of the prize
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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