In 1981, Roald Hoffmann won the Chemistry Noble Prize.
Born: 18 July 1937.
Nationality: American.
Education: Stuyvesant High School Columbia, Harvard.
Known as: Woodward–Hoffmann rules, Extended Hückel method, Isolobal principle.
Awards: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1981), William H. Nichols Medal (1981), National Medal of Science (1983), ForMemRS (1984), NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (1986), Priestley Medal (1990), Lomonosov Gold Medal (2011).
Fields: Theoretical Chemistry.
