George A. Olah

Interview

Interview, June 2000

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

George Olah talks about family background and early education; his discovery and the Nobel Prize (5.17); the work on carbocations (9:20); why he loves teaching chemistry (15:46); how to create successful creative milieus (18:12); and about why there are so many Hungarian Laureates (20:14).

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