| Roald Hoffmann  AKA Roald Safran
Born: 18-Jul-1937
Birthplace: Zloczów, Poland
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Woodward-Hoffmann reaction Father: Hillel Safran (civil engineer, d. 1943 after attempted escape from camp)
Mother: Clara Rosen (schoolteacher)
Father: Paul Hoffmann (stepfather)
Sister: Elinor (half-sister, b. 1954)
Wife: Eva Börjesson (m. 1960)
Son: Hillel Jan (b. 1963)
Daughter: Ingrid Helena (b. 1965)
High School: Stuyvesant High School, New York City, NY (1955)
University: BA, Columbia University (1958)
University: MA, Harvard University (1960)
University: PhD, Harvard University (1962)
Professor: Physical Science, Cornell University (1965-)
Eli Lilly Consultant
Kodak Consultant
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1971
American Chemical Society
American Philosophical Society
American Physical Society
Federation of American Scientists Board of Sponsors
National Academy of Sciences 1972
National Science Foundation
Royal Society 1984
Science Debate 2008
Guggenheim Fellowship 1978
National Medal of Science
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1981 (with Kenichi Fukui)
Priestley Medal 1990
Nazi Concentration Camp Inmate
Polish Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Official Website:
http://www.roaldhoffmann.com/
Author of books:
The Metamict State (1987, poetry)
Gaps and Verges (1990, poetry)
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