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The application of Acoustic Emission Examination (AE) during the inspection of pressure equipments, P Tscheliesnig - presented at the 3. Hungarian Conference on Safety Budapest, 1997... 

I was born in Budapest, Hungary on May 22, 1927. My father, Gyula Olah, was a lawyer. My mother, Magda Krasznai, came from a family in the southern part of the country and fled to the capital, Bndapest, at the end of World War I, when it became part of Yugoslavia. 

Budapest between the two World Wars was a vibrant, cultnred city with excellent theaters, concert halls, opera house, and museums. The city consisted of ten districts. The working-class industrial outskirts of Pest had their row-houses, whereas the middle-class inner city had quite imposing apartment buildings. The upper classes and aristocracy lived in their villas in the hills of Buda. 

Some of the social separation, however, was mitigated in the schools. There were remarkably good schools in Budapest, although as with much else it cannot be said that there was a uniformly high level of... 

Goalie of the soccer team of the Chemistry faculty at the Technical University of Budapest (1952)... 

Zemplen was a strong-minded individualist who opposed any totalitarian system, from Nazism to Communism. He was briefly jailed toward the end of World War II by the Hungarian Fascists for refusing to join in the evacuation of the Technical University to Germany when the Russian armies advanced on Budapest. He was also strongly opposed to the Communists. 

Another aspect of my early research in Budapest was in nitration chemistry, specifically the preparation of nitronium tetrafluoroborate, a stable nitronium salt. 1 was able to prepare the salt in a simple and efficient way from nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, and boron trifluoride. 

It was a long journey that led me from Budapest through Cleveland to Los Angeles with a side trip to Stockholm. Sometimes I still wonder how life unfolds in ways we could not have planned or foreseen. 

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L. L. Upson, "How to Design Your Own FCC Catalyst," presented at Katalistiks SthMnnualFCC Symposium, Budapest, Hungary, June 1987. 

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