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ROALD HOFFMANN
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• ROALD HOFFMANN (noun)
The noun ROALD HOFFMANN has 1 sense:
1. United States chemist (born in Poland) who used quantum mechanics to understand chemical reactions (born in 1937)
Familiarity information: ROALD HOFFMANN used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States chemist (born in Poland) who used quantum mechanics to understand chemical reactions (born in 1937)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hoffmann; Roald Hoffmann
Instance hypernyms:
chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)
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