This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams. — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
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… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
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
