In 1932, the eminent pianist Josef Hofmann came to America and chose the Steinway as his piano.
The affable Hansgeorg Hofmann, a Dresdner banker, sat on the executive committee in London and hence presumably reported to Mr Robertson.
Scientists from the Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Germany, led by Professor Sigurd Hofmann, discovered copernicium in fusion experiments in 1996.
Apart from Mr Hofmann, however, no other Germans sat on the committee.
"After IUPAC officially recognised our discovery, we agreed on proposing the name (because) we would like to honour an outstanding scientist, " said Professor Hofmann.
The fiscally challenged Mr Hofmann may have kept the loyalty of his investment bankers, but his credibility with the rest of the world was badly dented.
That was deeply misleading: three weeks later, it emerged that Hansgeorg Hofmann, the head of Dresdner's investment bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, had turned himself in to the tax authorities.
Mr Hofmann, a veteran of Wall Street, was the only senior manager at Dresdner, and one of very few in Germany, with a substantial track record in investment banking.
Hofmann lays out the nuances on CSRwire Talkback.
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Hansgeorg Hofmann, boss of Cobra, an investment vehicle that owns 17% of Commerzbank and so is its biggest shareholder, said after the talks ended that both banks were vulnerable to foreign takeover.
As he worked in the Sandoz research laboratory in Basel in Switzerland on April 16th 1943, isolating and synthesising the unstable alkaloids of the ergot fungus, Albert Hofmann began to feel a slight lightheadedness.
ECONOMIST: Albert Hofmann, chemist, died on April 29th, aged 102
Michael Hofmann, the translator of this new English edition, warns us in a fine introduction that the novel is in many ways untypical of Roth's other books, many of them looser, more open-grained satirical urban novellas.
"Weev is facing more than three years in prison because he pointed out that a company failed to protect its users' data, even though his actions didn't harm anyone, " said Marcia Hofmann, an attorney at the EFF.
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