Roald Hoffmann (USA)

Roald Hoffmann, born in Zloczow, Poland but educated in the US, is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters at Cornell University. One of America’s most distinguished chemists, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981. Hoffmann is also a writer – of poetry, essays, non-fiction and plays.
His interests in Russian science go back a long way, to a year spent in Moscow on the IREX graduate student exchange in 1960-61. Since that time, Roald Hoffmann has been active in American-Russian science activities. In 1991 Dr. Hoffmann received the first (and last) Gold Medal in honor of N.N. Semenov, awarded by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He is a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of St. Peterburg.