List of Famous people with last name Somorjai

Gábor A. Somorjai

First Name Gábor
Last Name Somorjai
Born on May 4, 1935 (age 91)
Born in Hungary

Gabor A. Somorjai is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a leading researcher in the field of surface chemistry and catalysis, especially the catalytic effects of metal surfaces. For 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 of Knowledge Award in Basic Science and the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences in 2013. Most recently, in April 2015, Somorjai was awarded the American Chemical Society's William H. Nichols Medal Award.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.016528844833374s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.0092630386352539s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.0092298984527588s
router_page: 1x 0.0067050457000732s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.0058109760284424s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0046420097351074s
headline: 2x 0.0025088787078857s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.002061128616333s
t_/blocks/person-card: 1x 0.0020239353179932s
qids: 2x 0.0015852451324463s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00022602081298828s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00019979476928711s
head-facts: 1x 0.00018191337585449s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 2.0980834960938E-5s
related: 1x 4.0531158447266E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-09-26 13:54:09)  -----