
Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann is a theoretical chemist and the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus at Cornell University. He is also a writer, carving out his own land between poetry, philosophy, and science. Email for Hoffmann: rh34 at cornell dot edu
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- An Octet in Flushing Meadows
- The Many Guises of Aromaticity
- The Tensions of Scientific Storytelling
- Little Interactions Mean a Lot
- The Thermodynamic Sinks of this World
- Bonding to Hydrogen
- Long Live the Intermediate!
- That's Interesting
- One Shocked Chemist
- Learning and Teaching Strategies
- Two Lives
- Abstract Science?
- The Squeeze Is On
- Why Think Up New Molecules?
- For a Few Atoms More
- Legally Sweet
- Blow-up
- The Metaphor, Unchained
- Old Gas, New Gas
- Storied Theory
- Will We Stop at Nothing?
- Meissen Chymistry
- The Story of O
- Cats and Rats
- Why Buy That Theory?
- Carbides
- Mme. Lavoisier
- Hi O Silver
- Thermophiles in Kamchatka
- Narrative
- Exquisite Control
- Forced to Choose
- Pulse, Pump & Probe
- A Really Moving Story
- Döbereiner's Lighter
- Crystal-Cloudy, Crystal-Clear