Roald Hoffmann
Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Emeritus
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Roald Hoffmann was born in 1937 in Złoczów, then Poland. He came to the US in 1949, and has long been at Cornell, active as a theoretical chemist. In chemistry
he has taught his colleagues how to think about electrons influencing structure and reactivity, and won most of the honors of his profession.
Hoffmann is also a writer, carving out his own land between poetry, philosophy, and science. He has published six books of non-fiction, three plays, and six volumes of poetry, including two book length selections of his poems in Spanish and Russian translations.
Industry: Chemistry, Philosophy, Education
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Dr. Hoffmann writes, and publishes, essays, poetry and plays