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Who was the first person of East Asian ancestry to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

  • Hideki Yukawa

  • Yoichiro Nambu

  • Kenichi Fukui

  • Shinichiro Tomonaga

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Kenichi Fukui was a Japanese chemist who was the first person of East Asian ancestry to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is best known for his work on the frontier orbital theory, which describes how atoms interact with each other to form molecules. Fukui's work has had a major impact on the field of chemistry and has been used to develop new drugs and materials.
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