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Roald Hoffmann

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I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.


— Roald Hoffmann


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I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.


— Roald Hoffmann


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I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.


— Roald Hoffmann


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One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.


— Roald Hoffmann


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Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.


— Roald Hoffmann


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After Germany invaded Poland and occupied the town his family was placed in a labor camp where his father who was familiar with much of the local infrastructure was a valued prisoner. Most of the rest of the family periRoald Hoffmannd in Holocaust though one grandmother and a few others survived. Hoffman visited Zolochiv with his adult son (by then a parent of a five-year-old) in 2006 and found that the attic where he had hidden was still intact but the storeroom had been incorporated ironically enough into a chemistry classroom.

He is the Frank H. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Emeritus at Cornell University in Ithaca New York.

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