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Article: US chemist wins Nobel for work on magic acids
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 13, 1994
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ACIDS that are a billion billion times stronger than 100 per
cent sulphuric acid hve won this year's Chemistry Nobel Prize for a
Hungarian- born American scientist.
The Physics prize was won by an American and a Canadian for
research that used subatomic particle beams from early nuclear
reactors to probe the atomic structure of solids and liquids.
Each prize is worth 7 million Swedish kronor (about pounds
600,000).
George A Olah, 67, of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute
at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, used the
superstrong "magic acids" to create electrically charged organic
molecules known as "carbocations". Chemists had previously believed
that these could ...