The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986
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Dudley R. Herschbach
Prize share: 1/3
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Yuan T. Lee
Prize share: 1/3
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John C. Polanyi
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986 was awarded jointly to Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes."
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