“Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must start young, and young people… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share
I was also interested in formulating the path of chemical reactions. — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
“Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must start young, and young people are limited by the chair system. Even if students cannot become assistant professors at an early age they should be… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share
This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental. — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
“As is known worldwide, Japan has tried to catch up with the western countries since the beginning of this century by importing science from… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
