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Interview transcript I’m sitting here in Lindau in Southern Bavaria, this is the 50th anniversary of the Lindau so called Nobelpreisträgertagungen and I am sitting here with George Olah who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994. I would like to ask you first, Professor Olah, could you tell us a…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1994 My Search for Carbocations and Their Role in Chemistry Pdf 2.25 MB

George A. Olah’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1994 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am most grateful for the honor bestowed on me today. Although receiving the Nobel Prize is the greatest satisfaction any scientist can experience, I consider it not only a personal acknowledgment, but also that of…

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I was born in Budapest, Hungary, on May 22, 1927 the son of Julius Olah and Magda Krasznai. My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science. I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle…

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Shimon Peres (Labour), Minister of Foreign Affairs, was born in Poland in 1923 and immigrated with his family as a child. He studied at the Ben Shemen Agricultural School, and was one of the founders of Kibbutz Alumot in the Jordan Valley. In 1943, he was elected secretary of the Hano’ar Ha’oved youth. In Israel’s…

Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat As Qudwa al-Hussaeini was born on 24 August 1929 in Cairo, his father a textile merchant who was a Palestinian with some Egyptian ancestry, his mother from an old Palestinian family in Jerusalem. She died when Yasir, as he was called, was five years old, and he was sent to live with…

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