[hof-muh
n; for 1, 2 also Ger. hawf-mahn] 
| 1. | E(rnst) T(he⋅o⋅dor) A(ma⋅de⋅us) (Wil⋅helm) [ernst tey-aw-dohr ah-mah-dey-oos vil-helm] , 1776–1822, German author, composer, and illustrator. |
| 2. | Jo⋅sef [joh-zuhf, -suhf] , 1870–1956, Viennese architect and designer, born in Czechoslovakia. |
| 3. | Ro⋅ald [roh-uhl, -ahl] , born 1937, U.S. chemist, born in Poland: Nobel prize 1981. |
| Hoff·mann (hŏf'mən, hôf'män') Polish-born American chemist. He shared a 1981 Nobel Prize for applying quantum-mechanics theories to the analysis of chemical reactions. |
Roald Hoffmann
Polish-born American chemist, corecipient, with Fukui Kenichi of Japan, of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1981 for their independent investigations of the mechanisms of chemical reactions.
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