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Roald Hoffmann

1937 - Today

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Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roald Hoffmann has received more than 396,640 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Roald Hoffmann is the 192nd most popular chemist (down from 164th in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 118th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Chemist.

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  • 400k

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  • 61.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Roald Hoffmann ranks 192 out of 602. Before him are F. Sherwood Rowland, Nicolas Leblanc, Robert S. Mulliken, Emil Erlenmeyer, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, and Hennig Brand. After him are Alan MacDiarmid, Paul L. Modrich, Robert Curl, William Standish Knowles, Louis Jacques Thénard, and Max Perutz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Roald Hoffmann ranks 62. Before him are Paolo Conte, Robin Warren, Anatoly Sobchak, Lionel Jospin, George Carlin, and Song Hye-rim. After him are Robert Lucas Jr., Mario Capecchi, Hélène Cixous, Sigmund Jähn, Tony Burton, and George Takei.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Roald Hoffmann ranks 132 out of 1,365. Before him are Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875), Nikolai Tikhonov (1905), Sviatopolk II of Kiev (1050), Alexander Samsonov (1859), Georgy Gapon (1870), and Semion Mogilevich (1946). After him are Anastasia of Kiev (1023), Mikhail Kirponos (1892), Sviatoslav II of Kiev (1027), Jacob Frank (1726), Dimitri Tiomkin (1894), and Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547).

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Among CHEMISTS In Ukraine

Among chemists born in Ukraine, Roald Hoffmann ranks 1. After him are Erwin Chargaff (1905), Jacques Bergier (1912), Jan Szczepanik (1872), and Ivan Horbachevsky (1854).

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