USC Professors Receive $1 Million for Alternative Energy Research
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By Christina Schoellkopf
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 | 1:19 p.m. PDT
The government of Israel announced Wednesday that two USC professors will be honored for their energy research.
George A. Olah and G.K. Surya Prakash will receive the 2013 Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation, according to the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The professors, who will receive a $1 million in prize money, are researching methods to replace fossil fuels with methanol in order to lower the air pollution produced by ground transportation.
The professors will receive the prize at the Bloomberg Fuel Choices Summit in Israel next month.
