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270 INDEX

Loschmidt, J., benzene structure, 154

Lui, Christine, graduate student, 91

Lukas, Joe, postdoctoral fellow, 90 Lukes, R., Czech chemist, 61

Magic acid, 45, 98 naming of, 95

role in chemistry, 96 Magic chemistry, 227

Malhotra, Ripu, graduate student, 91

Marinez, Eric, graduate student, 170, 247

Marshall, A. G., FT-ICR spectrometry, 89

Martensson, Carina, attache at Stockholm, 175

Marx, George, Hungarian physicist, 177

Masamune, S. bicyclo[3.1.0]hexyl cation, 160 squarepyramidal cation, 159

Mateescu, George

ESCA of norbornyl cation, 143 postdoctoral fellow, 86, 90

Mathew, Thomas, postdoctoral fellow, 247

May, Jessy, secretary, x Mayow, J., 26

Mayr, Herbert, postdoctoral fellow, 90

McFarland, Charles, graduate student, 91

McLafferty, Fred, colleague at Dow, 82

McMurry, J. E., -H-bridged carbocation, 159

Meerwein, Hans camphene hydrochloride

rearrangement, 73 carbocation concept, 73 contact starting from Hungary,

59

oxonium ions in the alkylation, 104

pioneer of mechanistic organic chemistry, 55

trialkyloxonium ions, 192 Mehrotra, Ashok, postdoctoral

fellow, 247

Meidar, David, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Melby, Earl, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Mendeleev, D., 32 Periodic table, 31, 33

Mertens, Alfred, postdoctoral fellow, 247

Messina, Giuseppe, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Metal carbides, 161 Methane

conversion to methanol, 211 – 212

protonated, CH5 , 100 Methanol

from atmospheric CO2, 205 direct oxidation in fuel cell,

205

Methonium ion, structure of, 149 Methylcyclopentyl cation, chart for

preparation of, 94

Mloston, Gregory, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Mo, Y. K., graduate student, 91 Modena, Giorgio, 245

Monod, J.

on chance, 14

discontinuum of consciousness, 15

Morton, Peter, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Moulton, Harold, benefactor, 116, 119, 232

Mu¨ ller, Eugen, book on mechanistic chemistry, 57

Multiverse cosmos, 15

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Myhre, Phillip

solid-state 13C NMR of norbornyl cation, 144

Nafion-H, solid acid catalyst, 102, 201, 164

Nafion resin, 100, 214 Nakajima, Tadashi, postdoctoral

fellow, 248

Nakayama, Koji, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Namanworth, Eli, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Nanochemistry, 135

Narang, Subhash, postdoctoral fellow, 90, 248

Natural gas reserves, 127, 207, 208

Natural product research, 53 Nenitzescu, Costin D.

contributions to carbocation chemistry, 75

Romanian chemist, 61 Nesmeyanov, A. N., 61 Neuman, John von

Hungarian-born mathematician 41, 47, 222

Manhattan project, 177 models in science, 10

Newman, Melvin, 236 Newton, Isaac

alchemist efforts, 24 theory of gravitation, 8

Neyer, Gebhard, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Nishimura, Jun, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Nitration

early study in Hungary, 58 – 59

extended studies in Cleveland, 104

with nitronium ions, 105 with N-nitropyridinium salts,

105

Nitronium fluoroborate

nitration of aromatics with, 199 protosolvation of, 200

Nitronium tetrafluoroborate, 58 Nobel, Alfred, 175, 181, 232 Nobel banquet remarks, 181 – 182 Nobel medal, 185

Nobel Prize, 120, 169, 179, 185, 232

Nojima, Masatomo, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Nonclassical carbocations, 159–160 Non-classical ion controversy,

137 – 152, 250 conclusion of, 145 significance of, 145

2-Norbornyl cation controversy, 137 – 152 NMR spectra, 142 nortricyclene from, 162 structure of, 149

Norris, J. F., triphenylmethyl cation, 73

Norrish, R. G.

Nobel Prize in chemistry, 62 Noyori, R., asymmetric synthesis, 36 Nyesmeyanov, A. N., formyl

fluoride, 58 Nyholm, Ronald, 64

O’Brien, Daniel, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Octet rule, 33

Ohannesian, Lena, graduate student, 247

Ohnishim Rhuichiro, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Oil (petroleum) composition of, 130 consumption of, 129, 207 early production, 130 heavy forms, 131 reserves, 207

sources of, 130

world deposits, 128 – 130

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O’Keefe, Georgia, painter, 73 Olah group (photo on the day of

the Nobel Prize), 171

Olah Library (photo), 121

Olah, Cindy, daughter-in-law, 175 family photo at USC reception,

172

Olah, George John, son, 63 – 64, 175

Olah, Gyula, father, 38 family photo, 39

Olah, Judith A. (nee Lengyel), wife in Cleveland laboratory (photo),

106

early photo, 49 family photo, 172

George and Judith Olah Library, 119, 122 (photo), 120

with Huisgens (photo), 246 joint research, 66

as newlyweds (photos), 49 – 50 Olah, Kaitlyn, granddaughter,

(photo), v

Olah, Magda (nee Krasznai), mother, 38

photo, 39, 40

Olah, Peter, brother, 45 (photo), 46 Olah, Peter, S., grandson (photo), v Olah, Ronald Peter, son, 66, 84, 175

family photo, 172

Olah, Sally, daughter-in-law, 175 Olah’s reagent, 103

Olah-type enzyme, 202 Onium ions, 149

preparation of, 103 Organometallics, hypercarbon

containing, 161

Orlinkov, Alex, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Ormandy, E., Hungarian-born conductor, 44

Oswald, W., 30

Oveges, Jozsef, physics teacher, 44 Oxonium ions, 192

Oxygenation, superacid-catalyzed, 166

Oxyzoglou, Alex, graduate student, 247

Oyama, Toshiyuki, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Ozone, superacid catalyzed reaction 167

Panspermia, life from space, 16 Paquin, Don, postdoctoral fellow,

248

Paracelsus, alchemy for preparation of medicines, 25

Parker, Dave, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Patai, Saul

Chemistry of Functional Groups series, 236

Pauling, Linus., 185

Nobel Prize in chemistry, 37, 155

resonance theory, 35, 62 on teaching, 239

triple helix DNA, 30 Pavlath, A., colleague and

collaborator in Hungary, 54 Pelizza, Franco, postdoctoral

fellow, 90

Pereira, William, designer of Loker building, 118

Periana, Roy, colleague, 123 Petasis, Nicos, colleague, 123 Peto, Magda, 175

Peto, Steve, 175

Petroleum, fractions of distillation, 133

Pettit, R., homotropylium ion, 160 Phenonium ions, 151

Phlogiston theory, 27

Piteau, Marc, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Pittman, Charles, postdoctoral fellow, 89

INDEX 273

Pivalaldehyde, isomerization to methylisopropyl ketone, 195

Pivalic acid, formation from isobutylene, 165

Plato, four elements, 23

Polanyi, Michael, Hungarian-born scientist, 47

Polymerization, 134 acid catalyzed, 102

Polymers, electroactive, 135 Pople, J.

ab initio methods, 29 Nobel Prize in chemistry, 36

Popper, Karl

falsification vs. verification, 10 on observation, 6

on selection of problems, 6 Porter, Richard, graduate student,

91

Postdoctoral fellows in Cleveland, 90

in Los Angeles, 247 Prakash, G. K. Surya

carbocation-borane analogy, 156

George and Judy Olah Professor, 123

graduate student, friend and colleague, 91, 93, 112, 175, 188

isostructural boron analogues of carbocations, 81

joint research with, 186 photo with George Olah, 124 photo with Olah group, 171 visiting India with, 244

Prelog, Vlado

Nobel Prize in chemistry, 61 Priestley, J.

isolation of oxygen, 27 phlogiston theory, 27

Prigogine, Ilya

Nobel Prize in chemistry, 12 on probabilistic science, 12

Proskauer, Eric, of Interscience and Wiley publishers, 236

Protosolvation, 195

of nitronium ion, 200 of tert-butyl cation, 201

Quantum theory, probabilitybased, 35

Quarks, 9

Rabo, Jules, 253

Radom, Leo, 160

Ramaiah, Pichika, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Ramos, Maria Teresa, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Rao, Buhsan Chandra, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Rapoport, Zvi, co-editor of Chemistry of Functional Groups series, 236

Rasul, Golam

graduate student, 247 colleague, 124, 157

Rawdah, Tarik, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Reddy, V. Prakash, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Reese, Colin, 245 Religions, organized, 13

Research, basic vs. applied, 7 cooperations, with Hungarin

scientists, 224 Reutov, O. A., 61 Riemenschneider, Louise

ESCA of norbornyl cation, 120 postdoctoral fellow, 90

Roberts, John D., pioneer of carbocation chemistry, 75 naming of nonclassical ions,

140, 148 Robinson, R.

electronic theory of organic chemistry, 55

Nobel Prize in chemistry, 34 Rochin, Christophe, postdoctoral

fellow, 248

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Nobel Peace Prize, 173

Roussel, Roger, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Rozsa, Miklos, Hungarian-born composer, 38

Rupp, Rolf, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Rutherford, Ernest atomic model, 9

Nobel Prize in physics, 31, 33

Sakakibara, Tohur, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Salem, George, graduate student, 91

Sample, Steven, president of USC, 116

Sandford, Graham, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Sassaman, Mark, graduate student, 247

Saunders, Martin, study of norbornyl cation, 141, 143

Schay, Geza

establishing Central Research Institute of Hungarian Academy, 60, 61

mentor in Hungary, 60 Scheele, C. W., discoverer of

oxygen, 27, 174

Schilling, Peter, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Schleyer, Paul von R., 109, 124, 141

calculational chemistry, 36 dehydroadamantanediyl dication,

160

contributions to carbocation chemistry, 75, 79

study of norbornyl cation, 141, 144

photo with George Olah, 125 Schlosberg, Richard, postdoctoral

fellow, 90

Schmidbaur, H.

of CH5 and CH62 analogues, 157

goldphosphine complexes of diprotonated ions, 191 Schneiderman, Howard, biologist colleague in Cleveland, 109 Schrodinger, E., H2 equation, 32

Schwaiger, Sabine, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Schwarz, Helmut, observation of NO2H2 , 200

Schweizer, Stephan, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Sciences definition of, 4 hard, 5 history of, 5 hyphenated, 5

relationship with arts and humanities, 18

scientific method, 5 scope of, 4

search for knowledge, 7 Scientists, of Hungarian origin, 222 Segal, Gerald, colleague in LA, 98,

111, 118, 120 Sellei, Camillo

early cooperation in cancer research, 59

Sellei, Gabi, 59 Semenov, N.

Nobel Prize in chemistry, 62 Shamma, Tatyana, graduate

student, 247

Sharpless, B., asymmetric synthesis, 36

Shen, Jacob, graduate student, 91 Shih, Joseph, graduate student,

247

Siebert, Thomas, American ambassador to Sweden, 177

Siegbahn, Kai, Nobel Prize in physics, 143

Silver tetrafluroborate, 59

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Silvia, queen of Sweeden, 149 at Nobel banquet, 149

photo with George Olah, 151 Simon, Jurgen, postdoctoral fellow,

248

Simonetta, Massimo, 157, 245 Simonetta, Mirella, 245 Simpson, Esther

help of refugee scientists, 65 Singh, Brij, postdoctoral fellow,

248

Sipos, George, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Sixma, F. L., 62

Skell, Phillip, at Mechanism Conference in Cork, Ireland (photo), 71

Sobel, Lucien, 252

Solti, G., Hungarian-born conductor, 44

Sommer, Jean, postdoctoral fellow and colleague, 90, 124, 245 book on superacids, 98

Somorjai, Gabor, 124 Sondheimer, Franz, colleague at

USC, 111

Sorensen, T., -H-bridged cyclooctyl cation, 159

Spear, Robert, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Staab, Heinz, 245

book on mechanistic chemistry, 57

photo with George Olah and Herbert Brown, 145

Stable-ion conditions, 150 Stahl, P., phlogiston theory, 27 Stang, Peter, 124, 175

photo with George Olah, 126 Staral, John, graduate student, 91 Steacie, Maurice, 66

Stephenson, M. L. (Bill), colleague, 86, 120

Stephenson, Maurice, graduate student, 247

Stieglitz Memorial Lecture, 73 Stoll, A., digitalis glucosides, 53 Stolp, Gunther, postdoctoral fellow,

248

Sulfonium ions, 197 Sundaralingam, Muttaya, colleague

in Cleveland, 85, 86 Sunko, Dennis IR studies of

carbocations, 79, 143 Super string theory, 10, 14 Superacid(s)

acidity of, 97

book with Prakash and Sommer, 98

catalysis of hydrocarbon transformations, 101, 102

as catalysts in hydrocarbon transformations, 164 – 166, 188

naming by Conant, 96 in the preparation of

carbocations, 76 – 80 protonation of varied bases, 101 research on, 188 – 204

Superelectrophiles, 165 concept of, 188 examples of, 203

Svoboda, James, graduate student, 91

founder of Cationics, 96, 253 Symmetry, significance in arts and

sciences, 18

Syrkin, Ya, K., on quantum theory, 36

Szantay, Csaba, Hungarian friend, 243

Szell, G., Hungarian-born conductor, 44

Szent-Gyorgyi Albert, Hungarian-born biochemist,

223

on discovery, 7

Nobel Prize in medicine, 223 Szilagyi, Paul, graduate student, 91

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Szilard, Leo

help of refugee scientists, 65 Hungarian born physicist, 47,

222, 257

in Manhattan project, 177 thermoelectric refrigerator

patent, 53

thermonuclear device patent, 54 Szwarc, Michael, 124

Tabor, Derrick, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Tashiro, Masashi, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Technology, concept of, 7 Teller, Edward

in Manhattan project, 177 Hungarian-born atomic

physicist, 41, 47, 222 Texaco, 253

Thales, 23

Thauer, R. K., dehydrogenase enzyme, 202

Theory, meaning of, 12 Thompson, J. J.

electron, 33 atomic model, 9

Todd, Alexander

Nobel Prize in chemistry, 64 Torok, Bela, postdoctoral fellow,

248

Triarylmethyl cations, 73 Triarylmethyl radicals, 73 Triflatoboric acid, 98

Trivedi, Nirupam, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Tsuge, Akihiko Tsuge, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Twain, Mark, chance as inventor, 7

Ugi, Ivar, former faculty member at USC, 110

Unified field theory, search for, 9 Universes (multiverses), 13

University of Southern California, 109, 110

UOP, 253

Vankar, Yashwant, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Van’t Hoff fellowship, 52 Vaughan, Julian, postdoctoral

fellow, 248

Volpin, M. E., aprotic superacid, 194

Wade, Ken, 124, 245, 245 Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement,

138

Walden, P., structure of malachite green, 73

Wang, Qi, graduate student, 247 Wang, Qunjie, postdoctoral fellow,

248 Water

diprotonated (H4O2 ), 190 protonated (H3O ), 190

Watkins, Michael, graduate student, 247

Watson, James

DNA, 19

Nobel Prize in medicine, 37 Weber, Klaus, postdoctoral fellow,

248

Weber, Thomas, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Weber, William (Bill), faculty colleague, 123

polymers and organosilicon chemistry, 135

Welch, John, graduate student, 91, 112

Wentzel, F. triphenylmethyl cation, 73

Westerman, Philip, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Westheimer, Frank, 233 Harvard seminars, 84

Weygand, F., 61

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White, Anthony, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Whitmore, Frank

early conception of carbocations, 74

pioneer of role of carbocations, 56

Wibaut, J. P., 62

Wichterle, O., Czech chemist, 61 Wiedemann, Jurgen, postdoctoral

fellow, 248 Wigner, Eugene

Hungarian-born physicist, 41, 184

in Manhattan project, 177 Nobel Prize in physics, 46, 47,

222

Wilkinson, Geoffrey catalyst, 193

Nobel Prize in chemistry, 36 organometallic chemistry, 36

Wilkinson, John, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Williams, Robert (Bob), colleague, 124

carbocation-borane analogy, 156 isostructural boron analogues of

carbocations, 81

photo with Olah group, 171 Winstein, Saul, 109, 138

contributions to carbocations, 75

homoaromatic ions, 160 nonclassical ions, 160 norbornyl ion controversy, 138,

140, 144

Wittig, Georg, 69, 245 Wohler, F., urea synthesis, 30

Woodward, Robert B. lectures, 240

Nobel Prize in chemistry, 36, 173

organic synthesis, 36

Wu, An-hsiang, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Yamada, Yorinobu, postdoctoral fellow, 90

Yamato, Takehiko, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Yannoni, C. S.

solid-state 13C NMR of norbornyl cation, 144

Yeager, Ernest faculty colleague in Cleveland, 85

Yoneda, Norihiko, postdoctoral fellow, 90

York, Chentao, graduate student, 247

Zadoc, Elazar, postdoctoral fellow, 248

Zemplen, Geza

student of Emil Fischer, 51, 52 establishing organic chemistry in

Hungary, 51 – 55 professor and mentor, 48

Zeolites, 102 structure of, 202

Ziegler-Natta polymerization, 167, 252

Zollinger, H., 245

photo with George Olah, 71 Zuanic, Miljenko, postdoctoral

fellow, 248

Zukor, A., Hungarian-born filmmaker, 44