Kenichi Fukui

Kenichi Fukui
Kenichi Fukui
Born	October 4, 1918; Ikoma District, Nara, Japan
Died	January 9, 1998 (aged 79); Kyoto, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Citizenship	Japan
Alma mater	Kyoto Imperial University
Known for	Frontier orbitals; Fukui function
Spouse	Tomoe Horie (m.1947)
Children	Tetsuya Fukui(son) and Miyako Fukui(daughter)
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1981); Order of Culture (1981); Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1988); ForMemRS (1989);
	Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto University
Doctoral advisor	Shinjiro Kodama
Doctoral students	Keiji Morokuma; Gernot Frenking

Kenichi Fukui (福井謙一, Fukui Ken'ichi, October 4, 1918 – January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist, known as the first person of East Asian ancestry to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Fukui was co-recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roald Hoffmann, for their independent investigations into the mechanisms of chemical reactions. Fukui's prize-winning work focused on the role of frontier orbitals in chemical reactions: specifically that molecules share loosely bonded electrons which occupy the frontier orbitals, that is, the Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital (HOMO) and the Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital (LUMO).

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