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Roald Hoffmann Interviews

Interviews

  1. Russell Ruthen, "Profile Modest Maverick", Scientific American (1990)
  2. Malcolm Browne, "Seeking Beauty in Atoms", The New York Times (1993)
  3. María de Jesús Rosales, Carlos Chimal and Miguel Angel Pérez Angón, “Roald Hoffmann, hacedor de acertijos”, Avance y Perspectiva 14, 267-275 (July-Aug. 1995); in Academia 26, 37-45 (sept.-oct. 1995)
  4. "Tapeworm Quadrilles", in L. Wolpert and A. Richards, Passionate Minds: the Inner World of Scientists, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1997)
  5. Carlos Chimal, Luz Interior: Conversaciones sobre ciencia y literature, Mexico: Metatemas (2001)
  6. Dorian Devins, “Discovering Oxygen” in The Dramatist, November/December 2001
  7. Francisco García Olmedo, “Semblanza de Roald Hoffmann”, SABER/LEER, Madrid (2001)
  8. Piergiorgio Odifreddi, “Intervista con il chimico premio Nobel Hoffmann”, Diario di Repubblica, 35 (Nov. 26, 2003); in Incontri con menti straordinarie, Longanesi, Milan, 213-223 (2006)
  9. Daniel Braun, “Science and Citizenship: the Role of Government, Industry and Academe”, in Cornell Political Forum 18(1/2), 4 (2003-4)
  10. “Perspective on a Nobel Laureate’s world balance between chemistry, poetry and philosophy,” The Spectrum, 17(4) p.4-8 (2004)
  11. Enrique Martínez Celaya, “The Fuzzy Boundary: Science and Art”, in Poetry in Process, Boulder: U. of Colorado, CU Art Museum, 91-99 (2005)
  12. Katarzyna Surmiak-Domanska, "Człowiek, któremu wszystko przyszło łatwo" in Gazety Wyborczej, Warsaw (Feb. 28, 2006)
  13. Victor-M. Amela, “Las moléculas son poéticas”, in La Vanguardia (Sept. 7, 2006)
  14. Liberato Cardellini “Roald Hoffmann’s Should’ve: Ethics and Science on Stage.” Chemistry International 29(3), (2007)
  15. Stefan Klein, “Schönheit ist die Freude am Lebendingen, am Unregelmässingen,” Zeit Magazin 26, 41-45 (2007)
  16. Nobel interview, January 2005
  17. Hilmar Schmundt, “Chemie ist sehr poetisch”, in Der Spiegel 33 (2007)
  18. Liberato Cardellini, “Looking for Connections: an Interview with Roald Hoffmann,” Journal of Chemical Education 84(10), 1631-1635 (2007)
  19. Stefan Klein, “Wir Alle sind Sternenstaub,” S. Fischer, Frankfurt, 2010, pp. 15-34
  20. Jasha Hoffman, “Chemical Connector,” Nature 480, 179 (2010).
  21. Interview with Roald Hoffmann, "Osobyi Khimicheskii vzgyad,"Khimia i Zhizn' 9 (2011).
  22. "Nobel interview with Roald Hoffmann," January 2005
  23. Shelley DuBois, "Why crazy ideas are critical: A Nobel-winning chemist's view," Fortune, August 30, 2012.
  24. Magda Romanska, “Between Art and Science: A Conversation with Roald Hoffmann,” Cosmopolitan Review 6(2) (2014).
  25. Stefan Klein, ed., “The Poetry of Molecules,” We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know, trans. Ross Benjamin (The Experiment, 2015), pp. 139-152.
  26. Stefano Sandrome, “Nobel Life; Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates” Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2021, p. 1-8.
  27. Cornell interview on Images of the Nanoworld
  28. "The Art of Discovery", in Emiliano Tognetti, "Behind the Nobel." Graphe.It, 2023