Kenichi Fukui shares the chemistry prize for explaining the course of chemical reactions using molecular orbital theory. His frontier orbital concepts connected electron distributions with the likelihood of bonds forming or breaking.
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Kenichi Fukui
Nobel Prize history for Kenichi Fukui based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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