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- Born
- 1891
- Died
- 1976
- Works
- 39
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Key facts
- Born
- Pollacsek Mihály , ( 1891-03-11 ) 11 March 1891, Budapest , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 22 February 1976 (1976-02-22) (aged 84), Northampton , England
- Alma mater
- Technische Hochschule , University of Budapest
- Occupation
- Polymath
- Known for
- Polanyi's paradox , Polanyi's sphere , Polanyi potential theory , Bell–Evans–Polanyi principle , Eyring–Polanyi equation , Flow plasticity theory , Transition state theory , Harpoon reaction , Tacit knowledge , Post-critical
- Spouse
- Magda Kemeny
- Children
- 2, including John
- Relatives
- Karl Polanyi (brother) Kari Polanyi Levitt (niece) Eva Zeisel (niece) Ilona Duczynska (sister-in-law)
- Awards
- Gifford Lectures (1951–1952) , Fellow of the Royal Society (1944)
- Fields
- Physical chemistry , Social studies
- Institutions
- Kaiser Wilhelm Institute , University of Manchester , Merton College, Oxford
- Thesis
- Adsorption of Gases by a Solid Non-Volatile Adsorbent (1917)
- Doctoral advisor
- Gusztáv Buchböck [ hu ]
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mihály
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Place of death
- Northampton
- Child
- John Polanyi
- Occupation
- chemist
- Position held
- president
- Educated at
- Eötvös Loránd University
- Employer
- University of Manchester
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Doctoral advisor
- Gusztáv Buchböck
- Student of
- Gusztáv Buchböck
- Image
- Michael Polanyi.png
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- Commons category
- Michael Polanyi
- date of birth
- 1891-03-11
- date of death
- 1976-02-22
- birth name
- Pollacsek Mihály
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- archives at
- Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
- inventory number
- MS COLL
- P8168
- Ashanti
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- physical chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Michael Polanyi (/poʊˈlænji/ poh-LAN-yee; Hungarian: Polányi Mihály; 11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. He argued that positivism is a false account of knowing.
His wide-ranging research in physical science included chemical kinetics, x-ray diffraction, and adsorption of gases. He pioneered the theory of fibre diffraction analysis in 1921, and the dislocation theory of plastic deformation of ductile metals and other materials in 1934. He emigrated to Germany, in 1926 becoming a chemistry professor at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, and then in 1933 to England, becoming first a chemistry professor, and then a social sciences professor at the University of Manchester. Two of his students won the Nobel Prize, as did his son. In 1944 Polanyi was elected to the Royal Society.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Michael Polanyi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.