The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981
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Kenichi Fukui
Prize share: 1/2
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Roald Hoffmann
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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