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Polish-American Nobel laureate chemist and playwright

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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.

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2019Marie Curie Medal
2011Lomonosov Gold Medal
2009James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry
2006American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal
1998Kołos Medal
1996George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education
1990Priestley Medal
1987honorary doctor of the University of Rennes I
1986NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
1984Foreign Member of the Royal Society
1983National Medal of Science
1982American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry
1981Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1981William H. Nichols Medal
1980Remsen Award
1978Guggenheim Fellowship
1974Centenary Prize
1974Linus Pauling Award
1973Arthur C. Cope Award
1969ACS Award in Pure Chemistry
Harvard Centennial Medal
Fellow of the American Chemical Society

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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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Born 1937 · age 89
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