During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admire…

- George Andrew Olah

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added r…

- George Andrew Olah

My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group g…

- George Andrew Olah

I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establis…

- George Andrew Olah

I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educati…

- George Andrew Olah

It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a m…

- George Andrew Olah

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for…

- George Andrew Olah

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

- George Andrew Olah