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George Andrew Olah (1927–2017)

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Hydrocarbon chemist whose work changed fuels, materials and drugs.

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Thomas Mathew is a senior scientist at the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, USA. He joined George Olah's group in 1996 and remained a close associate in the years afterwards.,
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Mathew, T. George Andrew Olah (1927–2017). Nature 544, 162 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/544162a

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