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Also Known As Yuan Tseh Lee
Born November 29, 1936 (age 88) • Hsin-chu • Taiwan
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1986)
Subjects Of Study chemical reaction • reaction mechanism
Herschbach, Dudley R.
Dudley R. Herschbach
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Wilhelm Ostwald.
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Manfred Eigen
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Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
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John C. Polanyi
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Langmuir, Irving
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R.B. Woodward, 1966.
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Herbert Charles Brown
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Ahmed H. Zewail
Ahmed H. Zewail
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Warshel, Arieh
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Roald Hoffmann
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