UNM Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology hosts departmental colloquium
Cornell Professor Roald Hoffman featured quest May 06, 2021
The UNM Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology hosts a departmental colloquium featuring Professor Roald Hoffman in a virtual presentation titled Simulation vs. understanding: A tension, and not just in our profession, on Friday, May 7 at 12 noon.
Hoffmann is a Polish-American theoretical chemist, who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y. He has also published plays and poetry.
“Applied theoretical chemistry” is the way Hoffmann likes to characterize the particular blend of computations stimulated by experiment and the construction of generalized models, of frameworks for understanding, that is his contribution to chemistry. The pedagogical perspective is very strong in his work.
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