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Roald Hoffmann
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Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor (born 1937)
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Roald Hoffmann is a scientist born on July 18, 1937. He has an Erdős number of 6. Hoffmann has received one Nobel Prize.
His work is recognized in several collections. These include the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Chemistry collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the National Medal Of Science collection.
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roald
- Family name
- Hoffmann
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Zolochiv
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Employer
- Cornell University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Award
- Remsen Award
- Doctoral advisor
- William Lipscomb
- Student of
- William Lipscomb
- Field of work
- chemistry
- Official website
- roaldhoffmann.com
- Image
- Roald Hoffmann HD2006 AIC Gold Medal.JPG
- Residence
- Ithaca
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- influenced by
- William Lipscomb
- member of
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- date of birth
- 1937-07-18
- Commons category
- Roald Hoffmann
- Erdős number
- 6
- P8168
- Kadipaten
- interested in
- chemistry
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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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