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George Olah

George Olah was a Hungarian-American chemist who won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on carbocations. After fleeing Hungary during the 1956 revolution, he moved to the United States, where he pioneered the use of superacids to stabilise and observe short-lived chemical intermediates. His work fundamentally changed our understanding of the carbon bond and the mechanism of organic reactions.

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