OLAH WINS CHEMISTRY NOBEL

Abstract

George A. Olah has won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on carbocations and their role in the chemical reactions of hydrocarbons. Olah is director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and chemistry professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine honors the discovery of G-proteins and their role in cellular signal transduction. The prize is shared by Alfred G. Gilman, professor and chairman of the department of pharmacology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and Martin Rodbell, scientist emeritus at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, N.C. And the Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Bertram N. Brockhouse, physics professor at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, and Clifford G. Shull, an emeritus professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques...