Roald Hoffmann
Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor (born 1937)
Roald Hoffmann (born July 18, 1937)[1] is a Polish-born American theoretical chemist of Jewish descent.[2] He won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Roald Hoffmann | |
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 Roald Hoffmann | |
| Born | July 18, 1937 |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Stuyvesant High School Columbia University Harvard University |
| Known for | reaction mechanisms |
| Awards | 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
| Doctoral advisor | William N. Lipscomb, Jr. |
He was born in Zloczov, Poland (now Ukraine)[3]
Hoffmann survived The Holocaust and moved to the United States in 1949.
References
change- ↑ Hoffmann's birth name was Roald Safran. Hoffmann is the surname adopted by his stepfather in the years after World War II
- ↑ "Famous Scientists". HowStuffWorks. July 1, 2010.
- ↑ "Roald Hoffmann – Facts". Nobelprize.org.
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