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Roald Hoffmann
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Roald Hoffmann

b. 1937

Polish-American Nobel laureate chemist and playwright

Born
18 Jul 1937 · Zolochiv
Part ofUkraine896 CE – todaySecond Polish Republic1857 – 1945

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 102 years
  1. 18 Jul 1937BornBorn in Zolochiv
  2. 1969AwardACS Award in Pure Chemistry
  3. 1973AwardArthur C. Cope Award
  4. 1974AwardCentenary Prize
  5. 1974AwardHarvard Centennial Medal
  6. 1974AwardLinus Pauling Award
  7. 1977AwardHonorary doctor of Royal Institute of Technology
  8. 1978AwardGuggenheim Fellowship
  9. 1980AwardRemsen Award
  10. 1981AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  11. 1981AwardWilliam H. Nichols Medal
  12. 1982AwardAmerican Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry
  13. 1983AwardNational Medal of Science

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1937 – today).

  1. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  2. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  3. 1938Munich Agreement
  4. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  5. 1939 – 1945World War II
  6. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  7. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  8. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  9. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  10. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  11. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  12. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  13. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  15. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  16. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  18. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  19. 1956Suez Crisis
  20. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  21. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  22. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  24. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  26. 1968Prague Spring
  27. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  28. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  29. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  30. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  32. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  33. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  34. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  35. 1985Schengen Agreement
  36. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  37. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  38. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  39. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  40. 19941994 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; 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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