Awards & Winners

Roald Hoffmann

Date of Birth 18-July-1937
Place of Birth Zolochiv
(Ukraine, Tarnopol Voivodeship - II RP)
Nationality United States of America, Poland
Also know as Roald Safran
Profession Scientist, Chemist
Roald Hoffmann is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York.

Awards by Roald Hoffmann

Check all the awards nominated and won by Roald Hoffmann.

1998


Ko?os Medal
(For the development of the orbital description of molecular adsorption on surfaces.)

1986


NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
(For his unifying contributions to chemistry, bringing together theory and experiment; quantum mechanics; and organic, inorganic, organometallic, and solid state chemistry.)

1983


National Medal of Science for Chemistry
(His creative applications of theory to organic and inorganic chemistry have brought together the world community of chemists. The magnitude and uniqueness of his contributions to modern chemistry and the scientific process are contributing to an ever-improving understanding of chemistry.)

1981


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions.)