Roald Hoffman's chemical story : part 3

Collection title

Collection Bibliotheca Alexandrina

ID

BIB00161

Source

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EG)

First broadcast date

03/19/2007

Production year

2007

Abstract

A lecture about "the commonalities and differences between art and science" by professor Roald Hoffmann. Roald Hoffmann gives examples of the realistic painting beginning with Fayum mummy portraits until Picasso and Van Gogh, and mentions that the difference between science and art is that "art needs no footnotes".

Type

video

Production companies

• Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Own production

Broadcaster

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Audiovisual form

Conference

Personalities

• Hoffmann Roald

Primary theme

Art, Culture and Knowledge

Credits / Cast

• Hoffmann Roald - Speaker

Period of events

• 2007

Map locations

• Egypt - Lower Egypt - Alexandria

Original language

English

Media running time

10m50