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Roald Hoffmann
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Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor (born 1937)
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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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 21
Top works
- Memory
- Oxygen/Deutsche Ausgabe
- My Name Is Univers
- Chemistry imagined
- Das Erhabene in Wissenschaft und Kunst
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1951-03-26
Discography
- Was fang ich an in dieser Stadt?1978
- Veränderungen1982
- Ciao bella1984
- Morjen Berlin1985
- Klaus Hoffmann1987
- Was bleibt?1989
- Es muß aus Liebe sein1989
- Klaus Hoffmann1989
- Zeit zu leben1991
- Sänger1993
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,697x
- SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor
· 2020 · cited 17,306x
- Environmental Applications of Semiconductor Photocatalysis
· 1995 · cited 17,028x
- IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP
· 2013 · cited 9,522x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,395x
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- roaldhoffmann.com
- Image
- Roald Hoffmann HD2006 AIC Gold Medal.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1937-07-18
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- Roald Hoffmann
- Erdős number
- 6
- P8168
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Article
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