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Roald HoffmannRoald Hoffmann (July 18, 1937-) is a theoretical chemist.He was born in Zloczow, Poland and named in honor of the Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen. His family immigrated to the United States of America in 1949. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Columbia University (Columbia College) in 1958, and his Master of Arts degree in 1960 and his Doctor of Philosophy degree (working under the subsequent 1976 chemistry Nobel Prize winner William N. Lipscomb, Jr.) in 1962, both from Harvard University. He has investigated both organic and inorganic substances, developing computational tools and methods such as the extended Hückel method[?], which he proposed in 1963. He also developed, with R. B. Woodward, rules for elucidating reaction mechanisms[?]. He is also a writer of poetry published in two collections, "The Metamict State" (1987) and "Gaps and Verges" (1990), and of books explaining chemistry to the general public. Also, he wrote a play called "O2 Oxygen" about the discovery of Oxygen, but also about what it means to be a scientist and the importance of process of discovery in science. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Swayne and his wife eat it,
I made her angry by calling her old, and making her know what herself is.
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his charges of eating and drinking here, and 10s. a-day as many days. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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