Roald Hoffmann was born on Roald Safran; July 18,1937 and is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
17 Facts About Roald Hoffmann
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Roald Hoffmann's parents were Clara, a teacher, and Hillel Safran, a civil engineer.
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Roald Hoffmann's father remained at the labor camp, but was able to occasionally visit, until he was tortured and killed by the Germans for his involvement in a plot to arm the camp prisoners.
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Roald Hoffmann referred to the experience as having been enveloped in a cocoon of love.
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Roald Hoffmann visited Zolochiv with his adult son in 2006 and found that the attic where he had hidden was still intact, but the storeroom had been incorporated, ironically enough, into a chemistry classroom.
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Roald Hoffmann graduated in 1955 from New York City's Stuyvesant High School, where he won a Westinghouse science scholarship.
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Roald Hoffmann received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Columbia University in 1958.
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Roald Hoffmann earned his Master of Arts degree in 1960 from Harvard University.
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Roald Hoffmann earned his doctor of philosophy degree from Harvard University while working under joint supervision of Martin Gouterman and subsequent 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner William N Lipscomb, Jr.
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Roald Hoffmann went to Cornell in 1965 and has remained there, becoming professor emeritus.
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Roald Hoffmann has investigated the structure and reactivity of both organic and inorganic molecules, and examined problems in organo-metallic and solid-state chemistry.
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Since the spring of 2001, Roald Hoffmann has been the host of the monthly series Entertaining Science at New York City's Cornelia Street Cafe, which explores the juncture between the arts and science.
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Roald Hoffmann has published books on the connections between art and science: Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry and Beyond the Finite: The Sublime in Art and Science.
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Roald Hoffmann co-authored with Carl Djerassi the play Oxygen, about the discovery of oxygen and the experience of being a scientist.
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In 1981, Roald Hoffmann received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he shared with Kenichi Fukui "for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions".
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Roald Hoffmann has won many other awards, and is the recipient of more than 25 honorary degrees.
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Roald Hoffmann is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.