The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981

Kenichi Fukui

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Prize share: 1/2

Roald Hoffmann

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981 was awarded jointly to Kenichi Fukui and Roald Hoffmann "for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions"

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