The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981
Awarded on: 1981-10-19
"for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions"
Affiliations:
- Cornell University – Ithaca, NY, USA
Roald Hoffmann
Born: 1937-07-18 in Zloczov, Poland (now Ukraine)
Gender: male
Field: Nobel laureate theoretical chemist
Biography
Roald Hoffmann 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.