Born: 4-Oct-1918
Birthplace: Nara, Japan
Died: 9-Jan-1998
Location of death: Kyoto, Japan
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Asian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist

Nationality: Japan
Executive summary: Frontier orbitals

Father: Ryokichi Fukui (merchant)
Mother: Chie Fukui
Wife: Tomoe Horie (m. 1947, one son, one daughter)
Son: Tetsuya
Daughter: Miyako

    University: Kyoto Imperial University (1941)
    Professor: Kyoto Imperial University (1943-82)

    Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1981 (with Roald Hoffmann)
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1983
    Royal Society 1989

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