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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 Nobel Prize-winning chemist known for his work in organic and inorganic chemistry who was born in 1937 and survived the Holocaust as a child. His scientific contributions are significant enough to have earned him the Nobel Prize, making him an important figure in modern chemistry.

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1937-07-18
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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.

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