Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry

Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann''s contributions to chemistry are well known. Less well known, however, is that over a career that spans nearly fifty years, Hoffmann has thought and written extensively about a wide variety of other topics, such as chemistry''s relationship to philosophy, literature, and the arts, including the nature of chemical reasoning, the role of symbolism and writing in scienc...