Kenichi Fukui

Kenichi Fukui (October 4, 1918–January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist. He won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Early life.
Fukui was the oldest of three sons of Ryokichi Fukui, who was a merchant. He was born in Nara, Japan. 
He graduated from Kyoto Imperial University in 1941. 
Career.
Fukui worked at the Army Fuel Laboratory of Japan during World War II.{ 
In 1943, he was appointed a lecturer in fuel chemistry at Kyoto Imperial University. 
He was professor of physical chemistry at Kyoto University from 1951 to 1982.
He was president of the Kyoto Institute of Technology between 1982 and 1988. 
Fukui shared the 1981 Nobel Prize with Roald Hoffmann. Fukui and Hoffmann worked separately on the mechanisms of chemical reactions. Fukui explained in his Nobel lecture that,