The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956
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Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Prize share: 1/2
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Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956 was awarded jointly to Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
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