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Building the Loker Institute—Hydrocarbons and Hydrocarbon Research... 

The Lokers had no background or business interest in ehemistry. It was Carl Franklin who told them abont USC s effort to establish a hydrocarbon research institute, and he must have also told them some-... 

With friends and benefactors, Harold Moulton and the Lokers... 

The extended Institute now has some 43,000 sq. ft. of space in a most attractive setting and provides not only first-class research facilities but in a sense a home away from home for all in the Loker Institute family, including what the younger generation named le bistro, a pleasant setting for lunch and informal discussions. 

The new addition of the building was completed by the end of 1994 and dedicated in February 1995. Because I coincidentally won the Nobel Prize just two months before (more about this in Chapter 11), some believed that there was some relationship between the two events. This certainly was not the case. Katherine Loker and our other friends had made their wonderful gifts well before, and it was just a fortunate coincidence that we had such good timing to celebrate the opening of our enlarged institute. 

Dedication of the Olah Library with Katherine Loker in 1996... 

The objectives of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute have stayed the same since its inception in 1977. They are ... 

Processing heavy oils and bitumens represents a challenge for the current refinery processes, because heavy oils and bitumens poison the metal catalysts used m the refineries. In our research at the Loker Institute, we found the use of superacid catalysts, which are less sensitive to heavy oils, an attractive solution to their processing, particularly hydrocracking. 

Although the major emphasis of the work in the Loker Institute was and is directed in the broadest sense toward the study of the fundamental chemistry of hydrocarbons, substantial and increasing emphasis is also directed to the aspects of hydrocarbon transformations as well as of derived polymeric and varied synthetic materials. 

Zhang. S. M. and Loker, E. S., Representation of an immune responsive gene family encoding fibrinogen-related proteins in the freshwater mollusk Biomphalaria glabrata, Gene, 341, 255, 2004. 

G. A. Olah, D. A. Klumpp, D. N. Baek, G. Neyer, and Q. Wang, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1661. 

Department of Chemistry and Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1661, USA... 

Dedicated to Katherine Bogdanovich Loker, friend and generous supporter of hydrocarbon research. 

Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry... 

Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-1661, USA Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-1661, USA... 

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