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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 369,622 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Roald Hoffmann is the 164th most popular chemist (up from 206th in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 151st in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Chemist.

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  • 370k

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  • 61.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Roald Hoffmann ranks 164 out of 509Before him are Satoshi Ōmura, Akira Suzuki, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Paul D. Boyer, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, and Nicolas Leblanc. After him are Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Robert Huber, Robert S. Mulliken, Sophia Brahe, Katalin Karikó, and Wallace Carothers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Roald Hoffmann ranks 53Before him are Jacques Santer, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Abu Nidal, Paolo Conte, Roger Zelazny, and Anatoly Sobchak. After him are Sajida Talfah, Hunter S. Thompson, Robert Huber, Robin Warren, Lionel Jospin, and George Carlin.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Roald Hoffmann ranks 118 out of 1,083Before him are Alexander Dovzhenko (1894), Sofia Rotaru (1947), Stanislaw Ulam (1909), Roman Shukhevych (1907), Georgy Gapon (1870), and Sviatopolk II of Kiev (1050). After him are Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929), Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842), Catherine Dolgorukov (1847), Dmitry Bortniansky (1751), Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902), and Ivan Sirko (1610).

Among CHEMISTS In Ukraine

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