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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1891
- Died
- 1976
- Works
- 39
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 18
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 85,307x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,759x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,866x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,528x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 38,975x
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Quotes
- “When order is achieved among human beings by allowing them to interact with each other on their own initiative — subject only to the laws which uniformly apply to all of them — we have a system of spontaneous order in society.”
- “The confidence placed in physical theory owes much to its possessing the same kind of excellence from which pure geometry and pure mathematics in general derive their interest, and for the sake of which they are cultivated. ... We cannot truly account for our acceptance of such theories without endorsing our acknowledgement of a beauty that exhilarates and a profundity that entrances us.”
- “The term 'simplicity' functions then merely as a disguise for another meaning than its own. It is used for smuggling an essential quality into our appreciation of a scientific theory, which a mistaken conception of objectivity forbids us to openly acknowledge.”
- “The descriptive sciences rely on skill and connoisseurship. At all these points the act of knowing includes an appraisal; and this personal coefficient, which shapes all factual knowledge, bridges in doing so the disjunction between subjectivity and objectivity. It implies the claim that man can transcend his own subjectivity by striving passionately to fulfil his personal obligations to universal standards.”
- “No sincere assertion of fact is essentially unaccompanied by feelings of intellectual satisfaction or of a persuasive desire and a sense of personal responsibility.”
- “In a strict usage the same symbol should never represent the act of sincerely asserting something and the content of what is asserted. For the symbolic distinction between the two, Frege has introduced the 'signpost' symbol. ... \vdash p is to signify the actual assertion of p, while the bare symbol p must henceforth be used only as part of a sentence. ... It should be clear from the modality of a sentence whether it is a question, a command, an invective, a complaint or an allegation of fact.”
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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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- Michael Polanyi
- date of birth
- 1891-03-11
- date of death
- 1976-02-22
- birth name
- Pollacsek Mihály
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- MS COLL
- P8168
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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.