Hungarian Revolution

George Andrew Olah (1927-) was born in Budapest. Hungary, and received a doctorate in 1949 at the Technical University of Budapest. During the Hungarian revolution in 1956. he immigrated to Canada and joined the Dow Chemical Company. After moving to the United States, he was professor of chemistry at Case Western Reserve University (1965-1977) and then at the University of Southern California (1977- ). He received the 1994 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on carbocations. 

George Olah was born in Hungary in 1927 and received a doctorate from the Technical University of Budapest in 1949. The Hungarian revolution caused him to emigrate to Canada in 1956, where he worked as a scientist at the Dow Chemical Company until he joined the faculty at Case Western Reserve University in 1965. In 1977, he became a professor of chemistry at the University of Southern California. In 1994, he received the Nobel Prize for his work on carbocations. 

Attila E. Pavlath received his diploma as a Chemical Engineer from the Technical University of Budapest and his Ph D. in chemistry from the Hungarian Academy of Science. He taught at his alma mater before he left Hungary after the 1956 revolution. After spending some time at McGill University in Montreal and Stauffer Chemical in Richmond, California, he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Albany, California, in 1967 where he is a research leader. 

The Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy collapsed in November. Austrian novelist Robert Musil explained that collapse as well as anybody in a dry epitaph Es ist passiert ( It sort of happened ). Hungary won a new government on October 31 and ecstatic crowds filled the streets of Budapest waving chrysanthemums, which had become the symbol of the revolution, and cheering the truckloads of soldiers and workers that pushed through. 

The Hungarian Chemical Society probably would not have come into being without the experience gained by the preceding societies. MKE survived two world wars and two revolutions, several economic crises and several restructurings of the chemical industry that forms its financial background. 

November Red Army crushes the Hungarian Counter-revolution. 

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