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George Andrew Olah
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Person

George Andrew Olah

1927 – 2017 · aged 90

Hungarian chemist (1927-2017)

Born
22 May 1927 · Budapest
Died
8 Mar 2017 · Beverly Hills
Part ofHungary975 CE – todayAgnosticism490 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 103 years
  1. 22 May 1927BornBorn in Budapest
  2. 1963AwardGeorge A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry
  3. 1972AwardGuggenheim Fellowship
  4. 1977AwardCentenary Prize
  5. 1979AwardACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,
  6. 1988AwardGuggenheim Fellowship
  7. 1989AwardRoger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry
  8. 1991AwardTolman Award
  9. 1993AwardChemical Pioneer Award
  10. 1994AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  11. 1996AwardHonorary doctorate from University of Montpellier-II
  12. 1996AwardF. A. Cotton Medal
  13. 1997AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  14. 8 Mar 2017DiedDied in Beverly Hills

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1927 – 2017).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

George 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." He was also 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.

After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he immigrated to the United Kingdom, which he left for Canada in 1964, finally resettling in the United States in 1965. According to György Marx, he was one of The Martians.

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