George Andrew Olah

George Andrew Olah (born 1927) is a U.S. (Hungarian-born) chemist. He was significant in stabilising and in the studying of carbocations. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994.

Olah is currently a distinguished professor at the University of Southern California and the director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research institute. In 2005 Olah wrote an essay promoting the methanol economy.

References

• George A. Olah, Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy, Angewandte Chemie International Edition Volume 44, Issue 18 , Pages 2636 - 2639, 2005
• his contribution to carbocation chemistry.

See also: George Andrew Olah, 1927, 1994, Biography, Carbocation, Chemist, Chemistry, Hungary, Methanol economy