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Wolf Prize in Chemistry (10) |
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| complete name: |
John Polanyi |
| nobel prize: |
chemistry |
| award year: |
1986 |
| together with: |
Yuan T. Lee |
| together with: |
Dudley R. Herschbach |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986 was awarded jointly to Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
John |
| family name: |
Polanyi |
| occupation: |
physicist |
| occupation: |
chemist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| field of work: |
chemistry |
| work location: |
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
| description: |
John Polanyi is a Hungarian-Canadian chemist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his research in chemical kinetics. Polanyi was educated at the University of Manchester, 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 (Michael), was a noted chemist and philosopher. His uncle Karl was an economist. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1986/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1929 |
| usual name: |
John Polanyi |
