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GEORGE A. OLAH After graduating from high school and having survived the ravages of war in Budapest and realizing the difficulties facing life in a small and war torn country, I started to study chemistry upon entering university, being attracted by the wide diversity it offered. Classes at the Technical University of Budapest were relatively small. We probably started with a class of 70 or 80, whose numbers were rapidly pared down during the first year to maybe half by rather demanding "do or die" oral examinations, where the ones who failed could not connntinue. This was a rather cruel process, because laboratory facilities were so limited that only few could be accommodated. At the same time the laboratory training was thorough. For example, in the organic laboratory we did some 40 Gatterman preparations. It certainly gave a solid foundation. Organic chemistry particularly intrigued me and I was fortunate later to become a research assistant to Professor Geza Zemplen, the senior professor of organic chemistry in Hungary, who himself was a student of Emil Fischer in Berlin. He established in Hungary a reputable school in organic chemistry. As Fischer, he too expected his students to pay their own way and even paying for the privilege to work in his laboratory. Becoming an assistant to him although meant no remuneration but also no fee. Zemplen had a formidable reputation, and working for him was quite an experience. He also liked partying and these remarkable events in neighboring pubs lasted frequently for days. Certainly one's stamina developed through these experiences.

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George Andrew Olah George Andrew Olah Hungarian-American chemist who won the 1994 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work conducted in the early 1960s that isolated the positively charged, electron-deficient fragments of hydrocarbons known as carbocations (or carbonium ions). In 1949 Olah received a doctorate from the Technical University of Budapest, where he taught until 1954. He worked at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for two years before emigrating from Hungary during the revolution of 1956. He became a research scientist at the Dow Chemical Company in Canada (1957-64) and in Framingham, Mass., U.S. (1964-65). He was a professor at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (1965-1977), before joining the faculty of the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, where he became director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute in 1980. Although theoretically recognized for several decades as a common intermediate in many organic reactions, carbocations were unobservable because they were a short-lived, unstable class of compound. Olah was able to successfully disassemble, examine, and then recombine carbocations through the use of superacids and ultracold solvents. His breakthrough, announced in 1962, initiated a new branch of organic chemistry and led to the development of innovative carbon-based fuels and higher-octane gasoline.

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After graduating from high school and having survived the ravages of war in Budapest and realizing the difficulties facing life in a small and war torn country, I started to study chemistry upon entering university, being attracted by the wide diversity it offered. Classes at the Technical University of Budapest were relatively small. We probably started with a class of 70 or 80, whose numbers were rapidly pared down during the first year to maybe half by rather demanding "do or die" oral examinations, where the ones who failed could not continue. This was a rather cruel process, because laboratory facilities were so limited that only few could be accommodated. At the same time the laboratory training was thorough. For example, in the organic laboratory we did some 40 Gatterman preparations. It certainly gave a solid foundation. Organic chemistry particularly intrigued me and I was fortunate later to become a research assistant to Professor Geza Zemplen, the senior professor of organic chemistry in Hungary, who himself was a student of Emil Fischer in Berlin. He established in Hungary a reputable school in organic chemistry. As Fischer, he too expected his students to pay their own way and even paying for the privilege to work in his laboratory. Becoming an assistant to him although meant no remuneration but also no fee. Zemplen had a formidable reputation, and working for him was quite an experience. He also liked partying and these remarkable events in neighboring pubs lasted frequently for days. Certainly one's stamina developed through these experiences.

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Olah, George A., in full GEORGE ANDREW OLAH (b. May 22, 1927, Budapest, Hung.), Hungarian-American chemist who won the 1994 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work conducted in the early 1960s that isolated the positively charged, electron-deficient fragments of hydrocarbons known as carbocations (or carbonium ions). In 1949 Olah received a doctorate from the Technical University of Budapest, where he taught until 1954. He worked at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for two years before emigrating from Hungary during the revolution of 1956. He became a research scientist at the Dow Chemical Company in Canada (1957-64) and in Framingham, Mass., U.S. (1964-65). He was a professor at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (1965-1977), before joining the faculty of the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, where he became director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute in 1980. Although theoretically recognized for several decades as a common intermediate in many organic reactions, carbocations were unobservable because they were a short-lived, unstable class of compound. Olah was able to successfully disassemble, examine, and then recombine carbocations through the use of superacids and ultracold solvents. His breakthrough, announced in 1962, initiated a new branch of organic chemistry and led to the development of innovative carbon-based fuels and higher-octane gasoline.

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George Olah won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry George Olah of the University of Southern California has won the 1994 Nobel Prize in chemistry "for revolutionizing the study of hydrocarbons and uncovering new ways to use them in the petroleum industry." Much of his late work was on cage molecules, particularly fullerenes The citation: For his contributions to carbocation chemistry. The announcement: Hydrocarbons constitute a very large and important group of organic compounds for example most products from natural mineral oil are hydrocarbons. Although some hydrocarbons prepared by chemists around the turn of the century were thought to be ionic e.g., a group of compounds formed from benzene and methane ("triarylmethane derivatives") these were largely regarded as curiosities. When some chemists in Britain (Ingold and Hughes) and Germany (Meerwein) in the 1920s and 1930s started detailed studies of how chemical reactions between organic molecules took place it, however, became apparent that positively charged hydrocarbons what chemists call "carbocations" actually could occur as very shortlived (lifetimes of microseconds to nanoseconds) intermediates in the reactions. Since these postulated "carbocation intermediates" were likely to be not only very shortlived but also very reactive, it was generally assumed that one would never be able to prepare them in some quantities. Nor be able to study their properties with different physical techniques e.g., NMR and infrared (IR) spectroscopy or X-ray diffraction like one could do with normal unchanged hydrocarbons. But the direction of this field did change completely through the original and imaginative work by this year's Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry Professor George A. Olah.

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Alphabetical By research field By research focus Faculty positions available George A. Olah Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Distinguished Professor of Organic Chemistry Organic Chemistry B.S., Ph.D., 1949, Technical University of Budapest Office: LHI 203 Phone: Fax: Email: olah@usc.edu Research Focus Synthetic and Mechanistic Organic Chemistry Professor Olah's research spans a wide range of synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry. But most notably, his work on the chemistry of carbocations earned him the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Carbocations and Onium Ions Olah and his group have developed a wide variety of superacids which possess such low nucleophilicity toward carbocations that they can be prepared and directly observed as long lived species in these media. Higher valency Lewis acid fluorides such as SbF , TaF H results in superacids that are billions of times stronger than sulfuric acid. When they are used as solvents in ion-generating reactions, the lifetimes of carbocations and onium ions (halonium, oxonium, etc.) are sufficiently long to allow them to be examined by a variety of chemical and spectroscopic techniques ( C NMR H NMR, IR, ESCA, etc.).

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USC College Faculty Department Rosters Chemistry George Olah George Olah Distinguished Professor and Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Chair in Organic Chemistry Curriculum Vitae Phone: (213) 740-5976 E-mail address: olah@usc.edu Website: http://chem.usc.edu/faculty/Olah.html Research Interests Educational Summary M.S., Ph.D, Organic Chemistry, Technical University Budapest, Hungary 1949 Employment History Professor of Chemistry and Scientific Director, Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, 1977 - present C.F. Mabery Distinguished Professor of Research in Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, 1967 - 1977 Chairman of combined Departments of Chemistry, Case Institute of Technology; Case Western Reserve University, 1967 - 1969 Professor and Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 1965 - 1967 Research Scientist, Dow Chemical Company, 1957 - 1964 Head of Department of Organic Chemistry and Associate Scientific Director , Central Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 1954 - 1956 Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry, Technical University, Budapest, Hungary, 1949 - 1954

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Olah, George A. I was born in Budapest, Hungary, on May 22, 1927 the son of Julius Olah and Magda Krasznai. My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science. I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. I attended a Gymnasium (a combination of junior and senior high school) at one of the best schools in Budapest run by the Piarist Fathers, a Roman Catholic order. A strict and demanding curriculum heavily emphasizing the humanities included 8 years of Latin, with German and French as other obligatory languages. Although we had an outstanding science teacher who later became a professor of physics in the University of Budapest I can not recollect any particular interest in chemistry during my school years. My main interest was in the humanities, particularly history, literature, etc. I was (and still am) and avid reader and believe that getting attached too early to a specific field frequently shortchanges a balanced broad education. Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

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George Oláh Received Nobel Prize in 1994 for his studies of hydrocarbons, the ingredients of oil and natural gas, and his discovery of new ways to use them. Oláh Bio I at MIT. Oláh Bio II at the University of Southern California. If you have additional photos or more biographical information on these or other famous Hungarians, please contribute!

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