Chemical Education International, Vol. 8, No. 1, AN-1, Received October 6, 2008

INTRODUCTION
The Committee on Chemistry Education (CCE) of IUPAC edits and issues an electronic journal, Chemical Education International (CEI) (www.iupac.org/publications/cei). For the benefit of those who aspire to a career in chemistry, each issue contains a short interview with a Nobel Laureate in chemistry. In this way, we hope to provide a profile of those who are at the forefront of chemistry and give aspiring chemists role models for their future endeavors.

The intended readership of the interviews published in CEI are senior high school students who are at a point in their life where they must make decisions about their future career, or first year university students in science and technology who must begin to specialize in a chosen field of study.

We are extremely grateful to Professor Lee* for his appreciation of the idea of this series of interviews and for kindly sparing us his precious time. This interview was carried out by Yoshito Takeuchi, Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo, at the office of the President, Academia Sinica, on March 2, 2005.

Professor Lee (right) and Professor Takeuchi

*The 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was shared jointly by Prof. Yuan T. Lee (University of California, Berkeley), Prof. Dudley R. Herschbach (Harvard University) and Prof. John C. Polanyi (University of Toronto) by virtue of their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes..

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