Word: fukui
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until Chemist Kenichi Fukui won a Nobel Prize in 1981 for his mathematical explanation of chemical reactions, he was more widely recognized abroad than at home. Indeed, when he first propounded his novel ideas 30 years ago, many of his Japanese colleagues scoffed...
Foreign recognition changed their attitude, and Fukui, now 64, quickly became a national hero. Says he: "The Japanese are very conservative when it comes to new theory. But once you are appreciated in the U.S. or Europe, the appreciation spreads back to Japan...
...footsteps of his late father Karl Siegbahn, the 1924 laureate in physics.* The other half of the award will be shared equally by two Americans, Nicolaas Bloembergen, 61, a Dutch-born Harvard professor, and Arthur Schawlow, 60, of Stanford. The prize in chemistry will go to Kenichi Fukui, 63, of Japan's Kyoto University, and Roald Hoffmann, 44, of Cornell University...