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Hoffmann

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Hoff·mann  (hfmn, hôfmän), Roald Born 1937.
Polish-born American chemist. He shared a 1981 Nobel Prize for applying quantum-mechanics theories to the analysis of chemical reactions.
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Noun1.Hoffmann - Austrian architect known for his use of rectilinear units (1870-1956)
Josef Hoffmann
2.Hoffmann - German chemist (1818-1892)
August Wilhelm von Hoffmann
3.Hoffmann - United States chemist (born in Poland) who used quantum mechanics to understand chemical reactions (born in 1937)
Roald Hoffmann
4.Hoffmann - German writer of fantastic tales (1776-1822)
E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann


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With his elbows on the table he sat between the two empty bottles, while spectres danced in the light of the unsnuffed candle -- spectres such as Hoffmann strews over his punch-drenched pages, like black, fantastic dust.
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