John Charles 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 2017.
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.
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