biography
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Hoffmann, Roald
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originally Roald Safran
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| lived:
| (1937– )
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Zloczow, Poland (now Zolochëv, Ukraine). He went with his family to the USA (1949) and joined the faculty of Cornell (1965). By providing mathematical rules that predict when and where a particular chemical reaction will result in a product of greater bonding and stability than the starting reagents (1970), he changed the way chemical experiments are designed. He shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1981. |
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