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Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1981 Roald Hoffmann was born in Zloczow, Poland, in 1937. Having survived the Nazi occupation, he arrived in the US in 1949, after several years of post-war wandering in Europe. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School, Columbia University, and proceeded to take his Ph.D. in 1962, at Harvard University, where he stayed from 1962-1965 as a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows. Since 1965, he has been at Cornell University, where he is now the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and Professor of Chemistry. "Applied theoretical chemistry" is the way Roald Hoffmann characterizes his computations, models and experiments which contributed to teach the chemical community new and useful ways to look at the geometry and reactivity of molecules, from organic through inorganic to infinitely extended structures. He is the only person ever to have received the American Chemical Society’s awards in three different subfields of chemistry: the A. C. Cope Award in Organic Chemistry, the Award in Inorganic Chemistry, and the Pimentel Award in Chemical Education. But Roald Hoffmann’s fame in the United States is mostly due to his storyteller’s talents. He was the leading participant in "The World of Chemistry", a series of 26 half-hour programs which has been aired on PBS beginning in 1990, and has been shown widely abroad. He has written popular books, such as Chemistry Imagined (1993) with artist Vivian Torrence, The Same and Not the Same (1995) and Old Wine, New Flasks; Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition, with Shira Leibowitz Schmidt, to be published this year. More unexpected is the fact that Roald Hoffmann is also a poet and has published two collections, entitled The Metamict State (1987) and Gaps and Verges (1990). Roald Hoffmann is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and of several foreign academies of sciences and humanities. He has received numerous honors, including over twenty honorary degrees. In 1981, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenichi Fukui "for theories that are milestones in the development of our understanding of the course of chemical reactions".

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