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Roald Hoffmann
Polish-American Nobel laureate chemist and playwright
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 18 July 1937
- Place of birth
- Zolochiv
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Roald
- Field of work
- chemistry
- Occupation
- playwright, chemist, poet, university teacher, writer
- Citizenship
- Second Polish Republic, United States
- Religion
- atheism
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Guggenheim Fellowship, Harvard Centennial Medal, Lomonosov Gold Medal, ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry, National Medal of Science, NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, Priestley Medal, Kołos Medal, Arthur C. Cope Award, Centenary Prize
- doctoral advisor
- William Lipscomb, Martin Gouterman
- doctoral student
- Michael John Bucknum, Timothy Ray Hughbanks, Jing Li, Ji Feng, Qiang Liu, Ralph A. Wheeler, Chong Zheng, Garegin A Papoian
- educated at
- Stuyvesant High School, Columbia University, Harvard University
- employer
- Cornell University
- Erdős number
- 6
- influenced by
- William Lipscomb
- interested in
- chemistry
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Society, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts, Russian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, American Physical Society, Polish Academy of Sciences
- residence
- Ithaca
- student of
- William Lipscomb
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