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George Andrew Olah

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

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George Andrew Olah is saying that his father worked in law, not science, and as far as he knows, none of his relatives were interested in scientific fields before him. This highlights that his pursuit of science was a new direction in his family background.

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