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Roald Hoffmann

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Roald Hoffmann

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Also known as Roald Safran

Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor (born 1937)

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Roald Hoffmann is a male person associated with Germany. He has been recognized in collections for the Royal Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Nobel Laureates, specifically within the Nobel Chemistry category. His official website is roaldhoffmann.com.

Hoffmann has authored works including *Memory*, *Oxygen/Deutsche Ausgabe*, *My Name Is Univers*, *Chemistry imagined*, and *Das Erhabene in Wissenschaft und Kunst*. He was born on July 18, 1937. His Erdős number is 6.

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Person · Open Library

Works
21

Top works

  • Memory
  • Oxygen/Deutsche Ausgabe
  • My Name Is Univers
  • Chemistry imagined
  • Das Erhabene in Wissenschaft und Kunst

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
Active from
1951-03-26
german

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
2

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1981

    for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions

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Encyclopedic overview

Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenichi Fukui “for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions”. He has also published plays, poetry and popular science. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Emeritus at Cornell University.

Early life

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