Everything about George Andrew Olah totally explained
George Andrew Olah (born
May 22,
1927 in
Budapest, 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. Soon after, he was awarded the
Priestley Medal, the highest honor granted by the
American Chemical Society.
Life
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, with another Hungarian chemist, Stephen J. Kuhn. 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.
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.
Work
The search for stable
carbocations lead to the discovery of protonated
methane which was stabilized by
superacids, like FSO
3H-SbF
5 ("Magic Acid").
» CH
4 + H
+ → CH
5+
In recent years, his research has shifted from
hydrocarbons and their transformation into fuel to the
methanol economy.
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