Olah | search
Click here to view Olah news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share- George A. Olah | Biography & Facts | BritannicaGeorge A. Olah (born May 22, 1927, Budapest, Hungary—died March 8, 2017, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.) was a 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 Memoriam: Nobel Laureate George Olah, 89 - News and EventsOlah received the Nobel Prize for groundbreaking work on superacids and his observations of what are known as carbocations, a fleeting chemical species long theorized to exist, but never confirmed — until Olah devised a way to keep them around long enough to study their properties.
- Burnt offering (Judaism) - WikipediaA burnt offering in Judaism ( Hebrew: קָרְבַּן עוֹלָה, qorban ʿōlā) is a form of sacrifice first described in the Hebrew Bible. As a tribute to God, a burnt offering was entirely burnt on the altar.
- George Andrew Olah (1927–2017) | NatureAt Dow, Olah had realized that 'superacids' — billions, even trillions, of times stronger than 100% sulfuric acid — can stabilize carbocations. In 1965, he became a professor at what is now ...
- George Andrew Olah - WikipediaGeorge Andrew Olah (born Oláh András György; May 22, 1927 – March 8, 2017) was a Hungarian-American chemist. His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry." [3]
More
