Roald Hoffmann

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Nobel laureate chemist human playwright poet theoretical chemist

Roald Hoffmann is a Polish-American theoretical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the electronic structure of molecules and the development of the Woodward–Hoffmann rules.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nobel laureate → chemist → human → playwright → poet → theoretical chemist →
academicAdvisor	William N. Lipscomb Jr. →
awardReceived	Nobel Prize in Chemistry →
birthName	Roald Safran →
citizenship	United States of America →
collaboratedWith	Robert Burns Woodward →
countryOfBirth	Poland →
dateOfBirth	1937-07-18 →
doctoralStudent	Charles B. Harris NERFINISHED → Paul von Ragué Schleyer → R. Bruce King → Roald Hoffmann’s group students in theoretical chemistry →
educatedAt	Columbia University → Harvard University →
employer	Cornell University →
ethnicity	Jewish →
fieldOfWork	chemical bonding → quantum chemistry → solid-state chemistry → theoretical chemistry →
hasWork	Chemistry Imagined → Extended Hückel method → Gaps and Verges → O, Bruto → Should’ve → The Metamict State → The Same and Not the Same → Woodward–Hoffmann rules →
influencedBy	Robert Burns Woodward →
knownFor	Woodward–Hoffmann rules → orbital symmetry control of chemical reactions → popularization of chemistry → work on electronic structure of molecules →
languageSpoken	English → Polish → Yiddish →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → American Philosophical Society → National Academy of Sciences →
name	Roald Hoffmann →
NobelPrize.category	Chemistry →
NobelPrize.motivation	theory concerning the course of chemical reactions →
NobelPrize.year	1981 →
notableConcept	frontier orbital theory (development and applications) → orbital symmetry conservation →
occupation	university professor →
placeOfBirth	Złoczów, Poland →
religion	Judaism →
residence	Ithaca, New York →
sharedNobelPrizeWith	Kenichi Fukui →
survivorOf	Holocaust →
workLocation	Ithaca, New York →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
ACS Award in Organic Chemistry → Priestley Medal →	hasRecipient
Robert Burns Woodward →	coAuthor
The Bronx High School of Science →	hasAlumnus
Roald Hoffmann →	name
Nobel Prize in Chemistry →	notableLaureate
ACS Award in Pure Chemistry →	notableRecipient
Robert Burns Woodward →	notableStudent