biography
pronunciation:
[fookwee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1918–1998)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Nara, C Japan. He studied at Kyoto University, becoming professor of physical chemistry there (1951–82), and director of the Institute for Fundamental Chemistry in 1988. He worked on the theory of chemical reactions, and developed the frontier orbital method for predicting the path of pericyclic organic reactions. He shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1981. |
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