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Roald Hoffmann

1937 - Today

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Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Emeritus at Cornell University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roald Hoffmann is the 210th most popular chemist (down from 192nd in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 132nd in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Chemist. Learn more about Roald Hoffmann's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Roald Hoffmann ranks 210 out of 602. Before him are Robert H. Grubbs, Robert F. Furchgott, Georg Ernst Stahl, Karl Barry Sharpless, Alan MacDiarmid, and James Dewar. After him are Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Nikolay Semyonov, Paul Lauterbur, Kenichi Fukui, Geoffrey Wilkinson, and Sophia Brahe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Roald Hoffmann ranks 51. Before him are Claude Lelouch, Robert Crippen, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Colleen McCullough, Jacques Santer, and Juvénal Habyarimana. After him are Colin Powell, Roberta Flack, Angelo Badalamenti, Sajida Talfah, Abu Nidal, and Vladimir Arnold.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Roald Hoffmann ranks 112 out of 1,365. Before him are Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), Anastasia of Kiev (1023), Fanny Kaplan (1890), Dmitry Bortniansky (1751), Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1801), and Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904). After him are Sofia Rotaru (1947), Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640), Lee Strasberg (1901), Josaphat Kuntsevych (1580), Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), and Stepan Makarov (1848).

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Among CHEMISTS In Ukraine

Among chemists born in Ukraine, Roald Hoffmann ranks 1. After him are Erwin Chargaff (1905), Jacques Bergier (1912), Ivan Horbachevsky (1854), and Jan Szczepanik (1872).

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