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Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1986 John Charles Polanyi was born in Berlin in 1929 of Hungarian parents. The family moved to England in 1933, where he obtained his BSc in 1949 and his PhD in 1952 from the University of Manchester. From 1952 to 1954 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Research Council Laboratories in Ottowa, Canada, the country that became his adoptive home, and from 1954 to 1956 at Princeton University. Appointed Lecturer at the University of Toronto in 1956, he successively became assistant, associate and full professor of chemistry, a position which he still holds. His research activity concentrates on molecular motion in chemical reactions in gases and at surfaces and in 1986 he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (with D.R. Herschbach and T. Yuan Lee) for his work on the dynamics of elementary chemical processes. Polanyi's awards include the Marlow Medal of the Faraday Society, the Centenary Medal of the British Chemical Society, the Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences (with N. Bartlett) and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (with G. Pimentel). Polanyi is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Canada, London and Edinburgh and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the US National Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Rome. He served on the Prime Minister of Canada's Advisory Board on Science and Technology, as Honorary Advisor to the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and as Honorary Advisor to the Institute for Molecular Sciences in Japan. In addition to his scientific work, Polanyi has long been involved in science policy and arms control and has written more than 100 articles on these issues. Founder of the Canadian Pugwash Group in 1960, in 1970 he produced the film "Concepts in Reaction Dynamics" and is co-editor of the The Dangers of Nuclear War (1979). |
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