Hoffmann was awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work , shared with Kenichi Fukui who developed a similar model using frontier molecular orbital ( FMO ) theory ; because Woodward had died two years before , he was not eligible to win what would have been his second Nobel Prize for Chemistry .
Hoffmann was awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work , shared with Kenichi Fukui who developed a similar model .