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Gábor A. Somorjai

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American chemist

United StatesScientistsLived 1935 to 2025 · aged 90
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Gabor A. Somorjai was a Hungarian-born American professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a leading researcher in the field of surface chemistry and catalysis, especially the catalytic effects of metal surfaces on gas-phase reactions.

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2023Enrico Fermi Award
2020Helmholtz Medal
2015William H. Nichols Medal
2013NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
2010BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
2008Priestley Medal
2007Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics
2006Remsen Award
2003F. A. Cotton Medal
2001National Medal of Science
2000Linus Pauling Award
1998Wolf Prize in Chemistry
1997Von Hippel Award
1995Chemical Pioneer Award
1994ACS Award in Surface Chemistry
1990doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University
1989Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry
1983Centenary Prize
1981ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry
Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow of the American Physical Society

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Gabor A. Somorjai was a Hungarian-born American professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a leading researcher in the field of surface chemistry and catalysis, especially the catalytic effects of metal surfaces on gas-phase reactions. For his contributions to the field, Somorjai won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1998, the Linus Pauling Award in 2000, the National Medal of Science in 2002, the Priestley Medal in 2008, the 2010 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Science and the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences in 2013. In April 2015, Somorjai was awarded the American Chemical Society's William H. Nichols Medal.

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United States
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Lived 1935 to 2025 · aged 90
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