George A. Olah (1927-2017).

George Andrew Olah, Founding Director, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute at the University of Southern California, passed away on March 8, 2017. Olah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994 for his work on the stabilization of carbocations in superacids. In recent years he was highly active in establishing a methanol economy, in which carbon dioxide is converted to methanol for use as a fuel or feedstock.