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EARLY LIFE Escape from the Holocaust Hoffmann was born in in 1949. Academic credentials Hoffmann graduated in 1955 from New York City 's Stuyvesant High School , where he won a Westinghouse Science Scholarship . He received his Bachelor Of Arts Degree at Columbia University (Columbia College) in 1958. He earned his Master Of Arts degree in 1960 and his Doctor Of Philosophy degree, both from Harvard University , while working under the subsequent 1976 Chemistry Nobel Prize winner William N. Lipscomb, Jr. . CHEMISTRY INTERESTS Hoffmann 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 Robert Burns Woodward , rules for elucidating Reaction Mechanism s (the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules ). He also introduced the Isolobal Principle . ARTISTIC INTERESTS Hoffmann is also a writer of Poetry published in two collections, "The Metamict State" (1987, ISBN 0-8130-0869-7) and "Gaps and Verges" (1990, ISBN 0-8130-0943-X), and of books explaining chemistry to the general public. Also, he co-authored with Carl Djerassi a play called "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. Hoffmann stars in the '' World Of Chemistry '' video series with Don Showalter . Since the spring of 2001, Hoffmann has been the host of a monthly series at New York City's Cornelia Street Cafe called "Entertaining Science," which explores the juncture between the arts and science. AWARDS Nobel Prize in Chemistry In 1981, Hoffmann received the Nobel Prize In Chemistry , which he shared with Kenichi Fukui .http://www.chem.cornell.edu/faculty/index.asp?fac=32 Other awards
Hoffmann is member of the International Academy Of Quantum Molecular Science and is a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists {Link without Title} . In August 2007, the American Chemical Society held a symposium at its biannual national meeting to honor Hoffmann's 70th birthday. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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