The Metamict State University Presses of Florida, University of Central Florida Press, 1987 - Literary Criticism - 104 pages |
About the author (1987)
Born in Zloczow, Poland, Roald Hoffmann escaped the annihilation of Polish Jews by the Germans during World War II and immigrated to the United States in 1949. He received a B.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. While at Harvard, he and Robert Burns Woodward developed the Woodward-Hoffmann rules on the conservation of orbital symmetry during a chemical reaction by applying principles of quantum theory. These rules enabled scientists to predict an important class of organic reactions. Hoffmann went to work at Cornell University in 1965. In 1981 he shared the Nobel Prize for chemical reaction theory with Kenichi Fukui (who independently had developed an orbital theory in the 1950s).
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Metamict State Contemporary Poetry Series - University of Central Florida Contemporary poetry series University of Central Florida contemporary poetry series |
| Author | Roald Hoffmann |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University Presses of Florida, University of Central Florida Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0813008697, 9780813008691 |
| Length | 104 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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