George Andrew Olah

George Andrew Olah is a Hungarian and American chemist. His research involves the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994. He has also been awarded the Priestley Medal, the highest honor granted by the American Chemical Society and F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research of the American Chemical Society in 1996.

Olah was born in Budapest, Hungary, on May 22, 1927, to Magda and Julius Olh, a lawyer. After the high school of Budapesti Piarista Gimnazium , he studied, then taught, at what is now Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

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