OLAH WINS 2005 PRIESTLEY MEDAL

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GEORGE A. OLAH, THE DONald P. & Katherine B. Loker Distinguished Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Southern California (USC), has been named the 2005 Priestley Medalist. The annual award, which recognizes distinguished services to chemistry, is the American Chemical Society's highest honor. Olah, who is director of USC's Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, is known throughout the chemistry community for his contributions to organic synthesis and mechanistic chemistry and most notably for his work in carbocation chemistry, for which he won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. I'm very appreciative of the honor, Olah said at last week's ACS national meeting in Anaheim, Calif., where the announcement was made. The 76-year-old chemist is particularly pleased, he remarked, because the award acknowledges work done over a long period of time. Indeed, during the course of a chemistry career that's now in its sixth decade, Olah and coworkers have made ...