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George Andrew Olah (born May 22, 1927, Budapest, Hungary, as Oláh György) is a Hungarian-born American chemist. He was significant in stabilizing and in studying carbocations via superacids. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994. In 2005 he was awarded the Priestley Medal, the highest honor granted by the American Chemical Society. is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A chemist pours from a round-bottom flask. ...
A carbocation (IPA pronunciation: ) is an ion with a positively-charged carbon atom. ...
A superacid is an acid with an acidity greater than that of 100% sulfuric acid. ...
This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ...
The Priestley Medal is awarded by the American Chemical Society (ACS) for distinguished service in the field of chemistry. ...
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. ...
Olah studied, then taught, at what is now Budapest University of Technology and Economics. As a result of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, he and his family moved briefly to England and then to Canada where he joined Dow Chemical in Sarnia, Ontario. Olah's pioneering work on carbocations started during his eight years with Dow. In 1965 he returned to academia at Case Western Reserve University and then to University of Southern California in 1977. In 1971, Olah became a naturalized citizen of the United States. The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (in Hungarian, Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem or in short Műegyetem) is the most significant University of Technology in Hungary. ...
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The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) is a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, USA. In terms of market capitalization, it is the second-largest chemical company in the world, smaller than only DuPont. ...
Sarnia is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada (city population 71,419, census area population 88,793, in 2006). ...
Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, with some residence halls on the south end of campus located in Cleveland Heights. ...
The Trojan Shrine, better known as Tommy Trojan located in the center of University of Southern California campus. ...
Naturalization is the process whereby a person becomes a national of a nation, or a citizen of a country, other than the one of his birth. ...
Olah is currently a distinguished professor at the University of Southern California and the director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute. In 2005, Olah wrote an essay promoting the methanol economy. The Trojan Shrine, better known as Tommy Trojan located in the center of University of Southern California campus. ...
Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute is on the campus of the University of Southern California. ...
The methanol economy is a hypothetical future economy in which methanol has replaced fossil fuels as a means of transportation of energy. ...
References
- George A. Olah, Alain Goeppert, G.K. Surya Prakash, Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy, Angewandte Chemie International Edition Volume 44, Issue 18, Pages 2636 - 2639, 2005
- Nobel Prize website
External links - Methanol as an alternative fuel Recording of a discussion with George Olah broadcast on NPR.
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This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ...
Winners of the Nobel Prize are scientists, writers and peacemakers who have been awarded in their field of endeavour, and who are known collectively as either Nobel laureates or Nobel Prize winners. ...
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Ilya Prigogine (January 25, 1917 â May 28, 2003) was a Belgian physicist and chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility. ...
Peter D. Mitchell (September 29, 1920- April 10, 1992) was a British biochemist who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for formulation of the chemiosmotic theory of mitochondrial function. ...
Herbert Charles Brown (May 22, 1912 â December 19, 2004) was a chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1979 (along with Georg Wittig) for his work with organoboranes. ...
Georg Wittig (June 16, 1897 in Berlin (Germany) - August 26, 1987) was a german chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides. ...
Paul Berg, born June 30, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. ...
Walter Gilbert Walter Gilbert (born March 21, 1932) is an American physicist, biochemist,and molecular biology pioneer. ...
Frederick Sanger, OM, CH, CBE, FRS (born 13 August 1918) is an English biochemist and a two time Nobel laureate in Chemistry. ...
Kenichi Fukui (ç¦äºè¬ä¸ Fukui Kenichi, October 4, 1918 â January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist. ...
Roald Hoffmann (born July 18, 1937 as Roald Safran --- Hoffmann is the surname of his stepfather) is an American theoretical chemist of Polish-Jewish origin. ...
Sir Aaron Klug, OM, FRS (born 11 August 1926 in Zelvas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes. ...
Professor Henry Taube, Ph. ...
Robert Bruce Merrifield (July 15, 1921 â May 14, 2006) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984. ...
Dr. Herbert A. Hauptman (born February 14, 1917) is a world renowned American mathematician and Nobel laureate. ...
Jerome Karle is an American physical chemist. ...
Dudley Robert Herschbach (born June 18, 1932), a chemist and Frank B. Baird Jr. ...
Yuan Tseh Lee (Chinese: æé å² Pinyin: LÇ YuÇnzhé, Wade-Giles: Li³ Yüan³-che²) (born November 19, 1936) is a famous chemist. ...
John Charles Polanyi (born January 23, 1929) is a Canadian chemist. ...
Donald James Cram (April 22, 1919 â June 17, 2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for âsynthesizing three-dimensional molecules that could mimic the functioning of natural molecules. ...
Jean-Marie Lehn (born September 30, 1939) is a French chemist. ...
Charles J. Pedersen (October 3, 1904âOctober 26, 1989) was an American organic chemist best known for describing methods of synthesizing crown ethers. ...
Johann Deisenhofer (born September 30, 1943) is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the structure of a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis. ...
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Thomas R. Cech was born on December 8, 1947 in Chicago. ...
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Rudolph A. Marcus in 2005 Rudolph Rudy Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of electron transfer. ...
Kary Banks Mullis (b. ...
Michael Smith, CC, OBC (April 26, 1932 â October 4, 2000) was a British-born Canadian biochemist who was the 1993 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry. ...
Paul J. Crutzen (December 3rd, 1933 - ) is a Dutch nobel prize winning atmospheric chemist. ...
Mario Molina (left) with Luis E. Miramontes Mario José Molina HenrÃquez (born March 19, 1943) was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in elucidating the threat to the Earths ozone layer of chlorofluorocarbon gases (or CFCs). ...
Frank Sherwood Rowland (born June 28, 1927) is a Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. ...
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Harold Kroto Sir Harold Walter Kroto, FRS (born 7 October 1939) is an English chemist and one of the winners of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ...
Richard Errett Smalley Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 â October 28, 2005) was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. ...
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John Ernest Walker (born January 7, 1941) is an English chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. ...
Jens Christian Skou (born October 8, 1918) is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate. ...
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Sir John Anthony Pople, FRS, (October 31, 1925 â March 15, 2004) was a theoretical chemist. ...
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Alan Jay Heeger (born 22 January 1936 in Sioux City, Iowa) is a United States chemistry and physics academic and Nobel Prize winner. ...
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