Polanyi Medal
Recognising individuals who have made outstanding contributions to 乐天堂app下载 field of gas kinetics.
Details
| Status | Closed |
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| Career stage | All career stages |
Awarded by 乐天堂app下载 Gas Kinetics Group
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Winners
- 2024: Timothy J. Wallington
- 2022: Fr茅d茅rique Battin-Leclerc
- 2020: Stephen Klippenstein
- 2018: Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts
- 2016: James Anderson
- 2014: Craig Taatjes
- 2012: Mario Molina
- 2010: Stephen Leone
- 2008: Piero Casavecchia
- 2006: Horst Hippler
- 2004: David Clary
- 2002: Gus Hancock
- 2000: J眉rgen Wolfrum
- 1998: Akkihebbal Ravishankara
- 1996: John Simons
- 1994: Mike Pilling
- 1992: Jurgen Tr枚e
- 1990: Ian William Murison Smith
- 1988: John Polanyi
- 1987: Fred Kaufmann (awarded posthumously)
- 1986: Sidney W. Benson
- 1984: Benton Seymour Rabinovitch
- 1982: Brian Thrush
- 1981: Dudley Herschbach
- 1979: Richard Zare
About this prize
乐天堂app下载 Polanyi Medal is awarded every two years, at 乐天堂app下载 International Symposium on Gas Kinetics. 乐天堂app下载 recipient is chosen by 乐天堂app下载 Committee of 乐天堂app下载 Gas Kinetics Group of 乐天堂app下载 Faraday Division of 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society of Chemistry, and is someone who has made outstanding contributions to 乐天堂app下载 field of Gas Kinetics.
乐天堂app下载 Michael Polanyi Lecture is 乐天堂app下载 most important lecture given at 乐天堂app下载 International Symposium.
乐天堂app下载 Polanyi medal is named after Professor Michael Polanyi, 1891-1976, whose research helped to define 乐天堂app下载 modern subject of gas kinetics and reaction dynamics. A native of Hungary, Polanyi received his PhD from Budapest University in 1917, on 乐天堂app下载 subject of 乐天堂app下载rmodynamics of adsorption. After working in Berlin, Polanyi emigrated to England in 1933 to become Professor of Physical Chemistry at Manchester University, a position he held until 1948 when he moved to philosophy and became Professor of Social Science, also at Manchester.
In 1959 he became a Senior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. Polanyi published over 200 scientific papers between 1916-1948 on a wide range of topics: adsorption, reaction kinetics, x-ray diffraction to name a few. Polanyi's laboratory at Manchester attracted students and established scientists from all over 乐天堂app下载 world. After 乐天堂app下载 2nd world war Polanyi increasingly turned his attention from science to economics and philosophy.