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