LC control no. | n 84800249 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Olah, George A. (George Andrew), 1927-2017 |
Variant(s) | Olah, George Andrew, 1927-2017 Olah, G. A. (George Andrew), 1927-2017 Oláh, György, 1927-2017 |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 1927-05-22 |
Death date | 2017-03-08 |
Place of birth | Budapest (Hungary) |
Place of death | Beverly Hills (Calif.) |
Field of activity | Chemistry Hydrocarbons Carbocations Superacids Methanol as fuel |
Affiliation | University of Southern California Case Western Reserve University Western Reserve University Dow Chemical Company |
Profession or occupation | Nobel Prize winners Chemists College teachers |
Found in | LCCN 61-4500: His Einführung in die theoretische organische Chemie, 1960 (hdg.: Olah, George Andrew, 1927- ) LC data base, 3-8-84 (hdg.: Olah, George Andrew, 1927- ; usage: George A. Olah) Synthetic fluorine chemistry, c1992: CIP t.p. (G.A. Olah) t.p. verso (George A. Olah; Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Southern Calif., Los Angeles, CA) data sheet (b. 5-22-27) Életem és a mágikus kémia, c2002: t.p. (Oláh György) New York times WWW site, viewed Mar. 13, 2017 (in obituary published Mar. 12: George A. Olah; George Andrew Olah; b. May 22, 1927, Budapest; fled Hungary after the 1956 uprising, making brief stops in Vienna and London before moving to Montreal; d. Wednesday [Mar. 8, 2017], Beverly Hills, Calif., aged 89; Hungarian-born scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 for his study of the chemical reactions of carbon compounds; his work began at a Dow Chemical Company research laboratory in Sarnia, Ont., where he settled in 1957; he left Dow in 1965 to return to academia as a chemistry professor at Western Reserve University in Cleveland (which became Case Western Reserve in 1967); moved to the University of Southern California in 1977 and founded the Hydrocarbon Research Institute there; professor of chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science) |
Associated language | eng ger hun |
Invalid LCCN | n 79018830 |