by Roald Hoffmann · Columbia University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780231101394
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«The Same and Not the Same» is the essay by Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann, published by Columbia University Press in paperback (294 pages, in English).
The book brings chemistry to the uninitiated by combining examples from art, literature, and philosophy. Roald Hoffmann explores the complexity of the molecular world and the tensions running through it: identity and change, creation and discovery, concealing and revealing, without shying away from ethical debates and the social responsibility of scientists.
It belongs to the series The George B. Pegram Lecture Series. This illustrated edition includes bibliography and index. Hoffmann shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenichi Fukui.
Suitable for students and professionals, as well as curious readers who want to understand chemistry from a humanistic perspective.
