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Born October 4, 1918 • Nara • Japan
Died January 9, 1998 (aged 79) • Kyōto • Japan
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1981)
Subjects Of Study orbital • reaction mechanism
Robert Burns Woodward, 1966
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
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Roald Hoffmann
American chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
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Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
British chemist
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Manfred Eigen
German physicist
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Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist
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Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
British chemist
Herschbach, Dudley R.
Dudley R. Herschbach
American chemist and educator
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Yuan T. Lee
Taiwanese-American chemist
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John C. Polanyi
Canadian chemist and educator
Professor Kenso Soai, wearing glasses and a suit, gestures with a pen while speaking at an event.
Kenso Soai
Japanese chemist
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Tanaka Koichi
Japanese scientist
Susumu Kitagawa
Susumu Kitagawa
Japanese chemist
lithium-ion batteries
Yoshino Akira
Japanese chemist
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Noyori Ryōji
Japanese chemist
Shimomura, Osamu
Osamu Shimomura
Japanese-born chemist
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Shirakawa Hideki
Japanese chemist
Negishi Ei-ichi
Negishi Ei-ichi
Japanese chemist
Suzuki Akira
Suzuki Akira
Japanese chemist

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