The Lise Meitner Lectureship award for the year 2004/2005 goes to Professor Roald Hoffmann, from Cornell University (USA). More than any other chemist in the second half of the 20th Century, Roald Hoffmann has charted the mental map of chemists through his ground breaking studies in organic and inorganic-organometallic chemistry, and by his unequaled ability to be a teacher unto the masses. In so doing, Hoffmann was able to convert theoretical numbers into portable paradigms that motivated his fellow chemists to test the theoretical ideas and widen the chemical window.

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