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Kenichi Fukui
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Kenichi Fukui

Scientist · born October 4, 1918 · died 1998

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Kenichi Fukui was a Japanese chemist. He became the first person of East Asian ancestry to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry when he won the 1981 prize with Roald Hoffmann, for their independent investigations into the mechanisms of chemical reactions.

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  1. ~63Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1981
  2. ~63Received the Order of Culture1981

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