John Polanyi
Chemist, Academic
1929 –
Who is John Polanyi?
John Charles Polanyi, PC CC FRSC OOnt FRS is a Hungarian-Canadian chemist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his research in chemical kinetics. Polanyi was educated at Manchester University, and did postdoctoral research at the National Research Council in Canada and Princeton University in New Jersey. Polanyi's first academic appointment was at the University of Toronto, and he remains there as of 2014. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Polanyi has received numerous other awards, including 33 honorary degrees, the Wolf Prize in Chemistry and the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. Outside of his scientific pursuits, Polanyi is active in public policy discussion, especially concerning science and nuclear weapons. His father, Mihály, was a noted chemist and philosopher. His uncle Karl was an economist.
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- Born
- Jan 23, 1929
Berlin - Also known as
- J. C. Polanyi
- John Charles Polanyi
- Parents
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Germans
- Hungarians
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Canada
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of Manchester
Chemistry
( - 1952) - Manchester Grammar School
- PhD, University of Manchester
- Employment
- University of Toronto
- Lived in
- Berlin
(1929/01/23 - 1933) - Toronto
(1956 - )
- Berlin
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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