Roald Hoffman Nobel Prize in Chemistry autographed lecture

2024-12-17T16:50:36-05:00

An autographed copy of "Building Bridges Between Inorganic and Organic Chemistry" by Roald Hoffman (1937-), with an attached letter from the Cornell University Department of Chemistry.

The lecture was delivered at the Nobel Prize award ceremonies in Stockholm, Sweden in December 1981.

The accompanying letter, addressed "Dear Colleague" and signed "Earl," details the contents of the lecture.

Roald Hoffman is a theoretical chemist who, along with Kenishi Fukui (1918-1998), won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions."