Gábor A. Somorjai
University of California, Berkeley
Gabor A. 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. 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 Knowledg
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Gabor A. 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. 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. In April 2015, Somorjai was awarded the American Chemical Society's William H. Nichols Medal.
Affiliation
University of California, Berkeley
Top Publications
- Formation of hollow nanocrystals through the nanoscale kirkendall neffect (2004) - 3,535 citations
- Highly Crystalline Multimetallic Nanoframes with Three-Dimensional Electrocatalytic Surfaces (2014) - 2,782 citations
- Thermally stable Pt/mesoporous silica core–shell nanocatalysts for high-temperature reactions (2008) - 1,471 citations
- General Route to Vertical ZnO Nanowire Arrays Using Textured ZnO Seeds (2005) - 1,445 citations
- Catalysis Research of Relevance to Carbon Management: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities (2001) - 1,417 citations
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- Full name
- Gábor A. Somorjai
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-8478-2761
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5058666235
Research interests
- Catalytic Processes in Materials Science, Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions, Surface and Thin Film Phenomena, Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques
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- Formation of hollow nanocrystals through the nanoscale kirkendall neffect ↗2004 · eScholarship (California Digital Library)3,535OpenAlex citations
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- 1,471OpenAlex citations
- General Route to Vertical ZnO Nanowire Arrays Using Textured ZnO Seeds ↗2005 · Nano Letters1,445OpenAlex citations
- 1,417OpenAlex citations
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- Formation of hollow nanocrystals through the nanoscale kirkendall neffect ↗2004 · eScholarship (California Digital Library)
- General Route to Vertical ZnO Nanowire Arrays Using Textured ZnO Seeds ↗2005 · Nano Letters
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