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Kenichi Fukui

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Kenichi Fukui

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Japanese chemist (1918–1998)

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Kenichi Fukui was a chemist who was born on October 4, 1918, and died on January 9, 1998. His name in kana is written as ふくい けんいち. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, receiving one such award.

His work and legacy are recognized in several collections, including the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Chemistry collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. Additionally, he has an Erdős number of 3.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1981

    “for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Empire of Japan
Place of birth
Nara
Place of death
Kyoto
Occupation
university teacher
Educated at
Kyoto University
Employer
Kyoto Institute of Technology
Languages spoken
Japanese
Field of work
chemist
Image
Kenichi Fukui nobel.jpg
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member of
National Academy of Sciences
date of birth
1918-10-04
date of death
1998-01-09
Erdős number
3
name in kana
ふくい けんいち
name in native language
福井謙一
cause of death
cancer
manner of death
natural causes
Commons category
Ken'ichi Fukui
interested in
chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview

Kenichi Fukui (福井 謙一, Fukui Ken'ichi; October 4, 1918 – January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist. He became the first person of East Asian ancestry to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry when he won the 1981 prize with Roald Hoffmann, for their independent investigations into the mechanisms of chemical reactions. Fukui's prize-winning work focused on the role of frontier orbitals in chemical reactions: specifically that molecules share loosely bonded electrons which occupy the frontier orbitals, that is, the Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital (HOMO) and the Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital (LUMO).

Early life

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