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Gábor A. Somorjai
American chemist
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dead
- born
- 1935
- died
- 2025
- age at death
- 90
- known for
- chemist, university teacher
1935 – 2025

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who gábor a. somorjai is
Gabor Árpád Somorjai 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.
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