Person Olah; George Andrew (1927 - 2017) Olah George Andrew 1927 - 2017 American Male Budapest, Hungary 22/05/1927 19270522 Beverly Hills, California, United States of America 08/03/2017 20170308

Chemist Carbocations Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1994 George Olah was a chemist who researched the generation and reactivity of carbocations — positively-charged carbon atoms — via superacids. Spanning a wide range of synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry, George’s work earned him the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He held around 100 patents and has co-authored 15 books. George discovered new superacids that are both fluid at low temperatures and millions, or even billions, of times more acidic than pure sulphuric acid. Otherwise transient, carbocations are stable in superacids, allowing their structures and properties to be determined. George’s work revolutionised organic chemistry and led to new discoveries and improvements in the production of fuel, plastics and pharmaceuticals, amongst others. After winning his Nobel Prize, George jointly developed a methanol-based fuel cell with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Caltech. This hydrocarbon and energy conservation technology has the potential to relieve the current burden on fossil-fuel resources and mitigate global warming. Professor George Olah ForMemRS died on 8 March 2017. Foreign Member 15/05/1997 69 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Andrew_Olah International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 22 May 1927 - 08 Mar 2017 NA4708 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/54209893 ea183314-1f41-44df-9a83-a1c30b674519