Polish chemist born in Zloczow, Poland, now Zolochëv, Ukraine, making mathematical rules that predicted when and where a reaction particular chemistry would result in a more stable product than the original reagents (1970), he changed the way the experiments were handled. chemical. Son of Clara Rosen and Hillel Safran, this one killed in a concentration camp (1943) went with his new family, his mother and stepfather Paul Hoffmann, to the United States (1949).
He studied initially in Poland (1944-1946), then in Czechoslovakia (1947-1948) and finally in Stuyvesant High School, New York, graduated in medicine from Columbia University (1955-1958) and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University (1962) and became a naturalized American and joined Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (1965), where he became John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1981) with the Japanese Kenichi Fukui (1918-1998) from the University of Kyoto.
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