# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roald-hoffmann
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:36:58.952Z

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name: "Roald Hoffmann"
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description: "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."
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birthDate: "1937-07-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump