The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986

Dudley R. Herschbach

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Prize share: 1/3

Yuan T. Lee

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Prize share: 1/3

John C. Polanyi

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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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