Who are those guys at the top of the page?
From left to right:
- Robert Woodward (1917-1979) – co-developed Woodward-Hoffmann rules. Nobel 1965 Wikipedia
- Arthur Cope (1909-1966) – developed the Cope rearrangement. Wikipedia
- Erich Hückel (1896-1980) – developed the Hückel MO method and Hückel’s Rule for aromaticity. Wikipedia
- Kenichi Fukui (1918-1998) – developed Frontier MO theory. Nobel 1981 Wikipedia
- Michael J. S. Dewar (1918-1997) – developed the “aromatic” transition state concept. Wikipedia
- Roald Hoffmann (b. 1937) – co-developed Woodward-Hoffmann rules. Nobel 1981 Wikipedia
Added 6/2/10: I recently “discovered” a very short article in C&ENews (S. Wilkinson, “Symmetry Rules!” January 27, 2003, 81(4), 59) celebrating the publication of the original Woodward-Hoffmann article in 1965. The article is nice to look at because it contains a link to the first W-H article and also photos of both men that were taken around the time when the Rules were published. Hard to believe that they were both younger than I am now (and Hoffmann was much closer to your age than to mine).
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