Today’s Jewish birthday: Roald Hoffman

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Roald Hoffman, 2025 (Photo: Wikipedia)

Roald Hoffmann (July 18, 1937) 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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