Kenichi Fukui

Fukui Ken'ichi (Japanese福井 谦 一Fukui Ken'ichi, born October 4, 1918 in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan, † January 9, 1998 in Kyoto ) was a Japanese chemist.

He was until 1982 Professor of Chemistry at the University of Kyoto, then to 1988, President of the Kyoto Institute of Technology, and then director of the Institute for Basic Chemistry, also a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

He got together with Roald Hoffmann 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for independently developed theory to the sequence of chemical reactions.