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Roald Hoffmann
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1937– · Polish-American Nobel laureate chemist and playwright

Also known as: Roald Safran, Роалд Хофман, رولد هوفمان, 로알드 호프만, ロアルド・ホフマン, 罗德·霍夫曼

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Known works

  • Solids and surfaces (1988)
  • Lo Mismo y Lo No Mismo (1998)
  • Sprache, Lügen und Moral
  • Chemistry imagined (1993)
  • Das Erhabene in Wissenschaft und Kunst