Gabor A. Somorjai (born 1935) is a Hungarian-born American chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading researcher in surface chemistry and catalysis. His work established that catalytic reactions on metal surfaces occur preferentially at surface defects rather than uniformly across a crystal face, a finding that reshaped understanding of heterogeneous catalysis. He received the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1998 and the National Medal of Science in 2001.
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Gabor A. Somorjai (May 4, 1935 – July 7, 2025) 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 ("heterogeneous catalysis").
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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
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Gabor A. Somorjai (May 4, 1935, July 7, 2025) 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 ("heterogeneous catalysis").
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Gabor A. Somorjai (May 4, 1935, July 7, 2025) 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 ("heterogeneous catalysis").
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