Gabor Somorjai
Gabor Somorjai · Science & Medicine
Physical chemist, pioneer of surface science and heterogeneous catalysis
1935, Budapest, Hungary
Hungary · United States
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A Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor who fled after the 1956 uprising, Somorjai built his career at the University of California, Berkeley, where he became a founder of modern surface science and heterogeneous catalysis, developing tools to observe how molecules react on solid surfaces. His work underpins industrial catalysis and clean-energy chemistry.
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Physical chemist, pioneer of surface science and heterogeneous catalysis
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
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