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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
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Roald Hoffmann
American chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
British chemist
Manfred Eigen
German physicist
Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
British chemist
Herschbach, Dudley R.
Dudley R. Herschbach
American chemist and educator
Yuan T. Lee
Taiwanese-American chemist
John C. Polanyi
Canadian chemist and educator
Tanaka Koichi
Japanese scientist
Yoshino Akira
Japanese chemist
Noyori Ryōji
Japanese chemist
Shimomura, Osamu
Osamu Shimomura
Japanese-born chemist
Shirakawa Hideki
Japanese chemist
Negishi Ei-ichi
Negishi Ei-ichi
Japanese chemist
Suzuki Akira
Suzuki Akira
Japanese chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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