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John Charles Polanyi,, (in Hungarian Polányi János)
PC,
CC,
FRSC,
FRS,
PhD,
DSc, (born
January 23,
1929) is a
Hungarian-Canadian chemist.
He was born in
Berlin, son of distinguished
Hungarian chemist
Michael Polanyi and Magda Elizabeth Polanyi, and nephew of influential economist
Karl Polanyi. The family moved to
England in 1933 where Polanyi studied at
Manchester Grammar School and the
University of Manchester – his father's workplace – achieving his
doctorate in 1952. Emigrating to Canada in 1952, he worked for the
National Research Council of Canada before moving to the
University of Toronto in 1956, where he's been
University Professor since 1974 and was a founding Senior Fellow of
Massey College.
He is a member of the
Queen's Privy Council for Canada, having been sworn in on July 1, 1992. In 1974 he was made an Officer of the
Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1979. Polanyi is also a
'Pugwashite'.
Through development of the technique of
infrared chemiluminescence he developed the understanding of
chemical kinetics.
He also won the
1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with
Yuan T. Lee and
Dudley R. Herschbach "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes."
In 1986, in honor of the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the government of Ontario created the "John Charles Polanyi Prizes", which are awarded annually to Ontario based researchers of outstanding merit. The prizes are given in the same subjects as the Nobel prizes that inspired them and are each worth $20,000:
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In 2004 John Charles Polanyi married the portrait artist Brenda Bury
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In 2005, Canada's
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council created the John C. Polanyi Award, acknowledging excellence in Canadian science or engineering.
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