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===Other awards=== Hoffmann has won many other awards,<ref name=NNDB/> and is the recipient of more than 25 honorary degrees.<ref name=Ziabari>{{cite web|last1=Ziabari|first1=Kourosh|title=I Heard On Radio That I Was Awarded The Nobel Prize : Prof. Roald Hoffmann|url=http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari021112.htm|website=Counter Currents|date=12 October 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923222724/http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari021112.htm|archive-date=September 23, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> *[[ACS Award in Pure Chemistry]], 1969<ref name=ACSPC>{{cite web|title=ACS Award in Pure Chemistry|url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/national/bytopic/acs-award-in-pure-chemistry.html|website=ACS Chemistry for Life|publisher=American Chemical Society|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405121808/https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/national/bytopic/acs-award-in-pure-chemistry.html|archive-date=April 5, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> <!-- Organic Chemistry Award (American Chemical Society), 1969 --> * Award of the [[International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science]], 1970, "pour sa methode de calcul des fonctions d'onde moleculaires et pour ses etudes theoriques des reactions chimiques"<ref name=Quantum>{{cite web|title=Award Winners|url=http://www.iaqms.org/awards.php|website=International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908112331/http://www.iaqms.org/awards.php|archive-date=September 8, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> *Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 1971<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Professor Roald Hoffmann|url=https://www.amacad.org/content/system/search.aspx?s=Hoffmann|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409052636/https://www.amacad.org/content/system/search.aspx?s=Hoffmann|archive-date=April 9, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> *Elected member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]], elected 1972<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/54497.html|title=Roald Hoffmann|website=www.nasonline.org|access-date=May 9, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629140143/http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/54497.html|archive-date=June 29, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref> *[[Arthur C. Cope Award]] in Organic Chemistry, 1973 (with [[Robert Burns Woodward|Robert B. Woodward]])<ref name=ACSACCA>{{cite web|title=Arthur C. Cope Award|url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/national/bytopic/arthur-c-cope-award.html|website=ACS Chemistry for Life|publisher=American Chemical Society|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407065344/https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/national/bytopic/arthur-c-cope-award.html|archive-date=April 7, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> * [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], 1981<ref name="Nobel"/> *Inorganic Chemistry Award (American Chemical Society), 1982 (sponsored by Monsanto)<ref name=ACSAIOCA>{{cite web|title=ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry|url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/national/bytopic/acs-award-in-inorganic-chemistry.html|website=ACS Chemistry for Life|publisher=American Chemical Society|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407065342/https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/national/bytopic/acs-award-in-inorganic-chemistry.html|archive-date=April 7, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> *[[National Medal of Science]], 1983<ref name=Sloan>{{cite web|title=Print National Medal of Science Winners|url=http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/national-medal-of-science-winners/|website=Alfred P. Sloan Foundation|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320035302/http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/national-medal-of-science-winners/|archive-date=March 20, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=NationalMedal>{{cite web|title=Roald Hoffmann (1937– )|url=https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/medalofscience50/hoffmann.jsp|website=National Medal of Science 50th Anniversary|publisher=National Science Foundation|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418214343/http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/medalofscience50/hoffmann.jsp|archive-date=April 18, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> *Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, elected 1984<ref name=NNDB>{{cite web|title=Roald Hoffmann|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/653/000100353/|website=NNDB Tracking the Entire World|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227172648/http://www.nndb.com/people/653/000100353/|archive-date=December 27, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref> * Elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1984|Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1984]]<ref name=formemrs/><ref name=RSFM>{{cite web|title=Foreign Members|url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/foreign-members/|website=The Royal Society|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712011053/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/foreign-members/|archive-date=July 12, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> *Foreign Member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]], elected 1985<ref name=NNDB/><ref name=RSAS>{{cite web|title=Roald Hoffmann|url=http://www.kva.se/en/contact/Kontakt-sida/?personId=648|website=Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien|publisher=Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150408034038/http://www.kva.se/en/contact/Kontakt-sida/?personId=648|archive-date=April 8, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> *Foreign Member of the [[Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters]], elected 1988<ref>{{Cite book |title=SPHINX Yearbook 2022-2023 |publisher=Societas Scientiarum Fennica |year=2023 |location=Helsinki |pages=331}}</ref> *[[Priestley Medal]], 1990<ref name=King>{{cite news|last1=King|first1=Julia|title=Nobelist Roald Hoffmann: Chemist, Poet, Above All A Teacher|url=http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/10792/title/Nobelist-Roald-Hoffmann--Chemist--Poet--Above-All-A-Teacher/|access-date=20 March 2015|work=The Scientist|date=December 11, 1989|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402190206/http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view%2FarticleNo%2F10792%2Ftitle%2FNobelist-Roald-Hoffmann--Chemist--Poet--Above-All-A-Teacher%2F|archive-date=April 2, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> *Harvard Centennial Medalist, 1994<ref name=GSASCM>{{cite web|title=GSAS Centennial Medalists|url=https://www.gsas.harvard.edu/alumni/gsas_centennial_medalists.php|website=Graduate School of Arts and Sciences|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409102531/https://www.gsas.harvard.edu/alumni/gsas_centennial_medalists.php|archive-date=April 9, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> *Pimentel Award in Chemical Education, 1996<ref name=A202>{{cite journal|last1=Hoffmann|first1=Roald|title=Teach to Search: ACS 1996 Pimentel Award|journal=Journal of Chemical Education|date=September 1996|volume=73|issue=9|pages=A202|doi=10.1021/ed073pA202|bibcode=1996JChEd..73A.202H|doi-access=free}}</ref> *[[Elizabeth A. Wood|E.A. Wood]] Science Writing Award, 1997<ref name=abrahams>{{cite web|last1=Abrahams|first1=Sidney|title=Elizabeth Armstrong Wood (1912-2006)|url=http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-14/number-4/elizabeth-armstrong-wood-1912-2007|access-date=11 November 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010030/http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-14/number-4/elizabeth-armstrong-wood-1912-2007|archive-date=March 5, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref> *Literaturpreis of the Verband der Chemischen Industrie for his textbook ''The Same and Not The Same'', 1997<ref name=Koch>{{cite web|last1=Koch|first1=Wolfram|title=Theaterdonner auf dem Chemiker-Kongress|url=http://www.djerassi.com/german17/index.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402153616/http://djerassi.com/german17/index.html|archive-date=April 2, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> *[[Kolos Medal]], 1998<ref name=Kolos>{{cite web|title=Kolos Medal Laureates|url=http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/people/AMyslinski/Kolos/recipients.html|website=Warsaw University|publisher=Faculty of Chemistry|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119223910/http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/people/AMyslinski/Kolos/recipients.html|archive-date=January 19, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> *[[American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal]], 2006<ref name=CHFAIC>{{cite web|title=American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/american-institute-of-chemists-gold-medal|website=Science History Institute|access-date=20 March 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202071752/https://www.sciencehistory.org/american-institute-of-chemists-gold-medal|archive-date=February 2, 2018|df=mdy-all|date=2016-05-31}}</ref> *[[James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry]], 2009<ref name=Grady-Stack>{{cite web|title=Chemist and writer Roald Hoffmann wins Grady-Stack Award for science journalism|url=http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2009/march/chemist-and-writer-roald-hoffmann-wins-grady-stack-award-for-science-journalism.html|website=ACS Chemistry for Life|publisher=American Chemical Society|access-date=March 22, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407123259/http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2009/march/chemist-and-writer-roald-hoffmann-wins-grady-stack-award-for-science-journalism.html|archive-date=April 7, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> *Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2009<ref name=ACSFellows>{{cite web|title=ACS Fellows|url=http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/fellows/list-of-2009-acs-fellows.html|website=ACS Chemistry for Life|publisher=American Chemical Society|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407190323/http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/fellows/list-of-2009-acs-fellows.html|archive-date=April 7, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> *Fellow of the [[Kosciuszko Foundation]] of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry, 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thekf.org/kf/programs/eminentscientists/|title=Kosciuszko Foundation - American Center of Polish culture - Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry|website=www.thekf.org|access-date=May 9, 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509145002/https://www.thekf.org/kf/programs/eminentscientists/|archive-date=May 9, 2018|df=mdy-all}}</ref> * [[Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture]], [[Science History Institute]], 2019<ref>{{cite journal |title=NOVEMBER MEETINGTHE ULLYOT PUBLIC AFFAIRS LECTUREPresentation byDr. Roald HoffmannCornell UniversityThe Same and Not the Same:The Many Faces of Diversity in Science and Society |journal=The Catalyst|publisher=Philadelphia Section, ACS |date=2019 |volume=104 |issue=9 |pages=139–140 |url=https://phillyacs.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/2019_november_catalyst.pdf |access-date=18 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="Institute">{{cite web|title=Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/ullyot-public-affairs-lecture|publisher=[[Science History Institute]]|access-date=16 February 2019|date=May 31, 2016}}</ref> *[[Marie Curie Medal]] of the [[Polish Chemical Society]], 2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ptchem.pl/pl/honors/winners-of-the-medals-and-ptchem-awards|title=Laureaci Medali i Nagród PTChem |access-date=2020-02-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/11180774/100_Years_Polish_Chemical_Society/#:~:text=During%20the%20anniversary%20celebrations%2C%20Professor%20Roald%20Hoffmann%20was,Adam%20Mickiewicz%20University%20%28AMU%29%2C%20Poznan%2C%20Poland.%20Figure%206. |title=100 Years Polish Chemical Society |website=chemistryviews.org |author=Vera Koester |date=7 September 2019|access-date=25 April 2023}}</ref> Hoffmann is a member of the [[International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science]]<ref name=Quantum2>{{cite web|title=Roald Hoffmann|url=http://www.iaqms.org/members/hoffmann.php|website=International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150408052450/http://www.iaqms.org/members/hoffmann.php|archive-date=April 8, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> and the Board of Sponsors of The [[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]].<ref name=Sponsors>{{cite web|title=Board of Sponsors|url=http://thebulletin.org/board-sponsors-0|website=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists|access-date=3 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150325085430/http://thebulletin.org/board-sponsors-0|archive-date=March 25, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In August 2007, the [[American Chemical Society]] held a symposium at its biannual national meeting to honor Hoffmann's 70th birthday.<ref name=Kovac>{{cite book|last1=Kovac|first1=Jeffrey|last2=Weisberg|first2=Michael|title=Roald Hoffmann on the philosophy, art, and science of chemistry|date=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-19-975590-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i1RpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|access-date=3 April 2015}}</ref> In 2008, the [[Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities]] awarded him its [[Lichtenberg Medal]]. In August 2017, another symposium was held at the 254th American Chemical Society National Meeting in Washington DC, to honor Hoffmann's 80th birthday.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.rsc.org/cp/2017/08/31/chemical-bonding-and-reactivity-spanning-the-periodic-table-a-symposium-in-honor-of-roald-hoffmann/|title=Chemical Bonding and Reactivity Spanning the Periodic Table: A Symposium in Honor of Roald Hoffmann – PCCP Blog|website=blogs.rsc.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-09-12|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912192401/http://blogs.rsc.org/cp/2017/08/31/chemical-bonding-and-reactivity-spanning-the-periodic-table-a-symposium-in-honor-of-roald-hoffmann/|archive-date=September 12, 2017|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The [[Hoffmann Institute of Advanced Materials]] in Shenzhen, named after him, was founded in his honor in February 2018<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ten Nobel prize-winning laboratories tell you: why do top scientists favor Shenzhen?|url=http://www.yidianzixun.com/article/0IK2xr28}}</ref> and formally opened in his presence in May 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Inauguration Ceremony of Hoffmann Institute of Advanced Materials and International Symposium on Advanced Functional Materials held at Shenzhen Polytechnic|url=http://edu.gd.gov.cn/zxzx/gdjy/content/post_2470829.html|access-date=2021-06-18|website=edu.gd.gov.cn|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202116/http://edu.gd.gov.cn/zxzx/gdjy/content/post_2470829.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2023, Roald Hoffmann was named by [[Carnegie Corporation of New York]] as an honoree of the [[Great Immigrants Award]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Great Immigrants Awards: Roald Hoffmann |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/roald-hoffmann/}}</ref>
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