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George A. Olah

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994

Interview

Interview with George A. Olah by Anders Bárány at the meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, 2000.

George Olah talks about family background and early education; his discovery and the Nobel Prize (5.08); the work on carbocations (9:12); why he loves teaching chemistry (15:38); how to create successful creative milieus (18:04); and about why there are so many Hungarian Laureates (20:06).
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