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

by Michael Weisberg, Roald Hoffmann, Jeffrey Kovac

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 science, and the relationship between art and craft and science...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199755906
• ISBN13: 9780199755905
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"