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.
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 m… - Roald Hoffmann
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 m…
- Roald Hoffmann
I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe. - Roald Hoffmann
I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.
From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there. - Roald Hoffmann
From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.
A few atoms added here, subtracted there, is all it takes to make the difference between male and female sex characteristics, between a harmless mole… - Roald Hoffmann
A few atoms added here, subtracted there, is all it takes to make the difference between male and female sex characteristics, between a harmless mole…
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 taug… - Roald Hoffmann
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 taug…
Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step to the reality of … - Roald Hoffmann
Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step to the reality of …
Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ..… - Roald Hoffmann
Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ..…
I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly. - Roald Hoffmann
I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.
Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry. - Roald Hoffmann
Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.
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