The Same and Not the Same - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Roald HoffmannSeries:George B. Pegram LecturePublish date:1997-02-06Pages:294
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231101394ISBN-10:231101392UPC:9780231101394Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:ChemistrySize:8.96 x 6.08 x 0.86 inchesWeight:1.5609Product ID:SC8GNBXHYZ
Positioned at the crossroads of the physical and biological sciences, chemistry deals with neither the infinitely small, nor the infinitely large, nor directly with life. So it is sometimes thought of as dull, the way things in the middle often are. But this middle ground is precisely where human beings exist. As Hoffmann shows in his inspired prose, the world observed at its molecular level is...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231101394ISBN-10:231101392UPC:9780231101394Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:ChemistrySize:8.96 x 6.08 x 0.86 inchesWeight:1.5609Product ID:SC8GNBXHYZ
Roald Hoffmann was born in Zloczow, Poland, in 1937. Having survived the Nazi occupation, he arrived in the U.S. in 1949, after several years of postwar wandering in Europe. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School, Columbia University, and proceeded to take his Ph.D. in 1962, at Harvard University, working with W. N. Lipscomb and Martin Gouterman. Dr. Hoffmann stayed on at Harvard University...
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