Roald Hoffmann was born in Złoczów, Poland in 1937. When Nazis began deporting Jews to concentration camps, Roald’s neighbor hid him, his mother, and three relatives in their schoolhouse’s attic and storeroom.
While in hiding, Roald occupied his time with studying the schoolhouse’s textbooks. After the war, Roald and his surviving family members lived in displaced persons camps and, in 1949, he and his mother moved to the United States. Roald graduated from high school in New York City in 1955. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree at Columbia University, Master’s degree from Harvard, and doctorate from Harvard.
In 1981, Roald was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
In 2006, Roald returned to Poland to show his son where his family had hidden. He found that the storeroom had been, by coincidence, converted into a chemistry classroom.
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