Roald Hoffmann papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 14-8-3360

Scope and content

Bound laboratory notebook (use CD copy), 1964; three letters from E.J. Corey, 1981 and 1984; and copy of letter to Corey, 1981. CD of scans of the notebook. Also items relating to Something That Belongs to You, a play by Hoffmann about the experience of a Holocaust survivor.

Dates

1964-1984.

Creator

Hoffmann, Roald. (Person)
Corey, E. J. (Person)

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Donor retains copyright during his lifetime..

Biographical / Historical

Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University. Roald Hoffmann was born in 1937 in Poland. After surviving the Nazi occupation, the remnants of the family emigrated to the U.S. in 1949. Hoffmann received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1962 with William N. Lipscombe and M. P. Gouterman, remaining at Harvard as a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows for three years. In 1965 Hoffmann accepted a position at Cornell where he is the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor in Humane Letters.

Biographical / Historical

In 1981 Hoffmann was awarded the Nobel Prize jointly with Kenichi Fukui"for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions." A writer of poetry, nonfiction, and plays as well as a theortetical chemist, Hoffmann builds bridges between art and science, as well as within his own chemistry. He is proud of being a teacher.