John Charles Polanyi Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
John Charles Polanyi (born January 23, 1929) is a German/Canadian chemist.He was born in Berlin, son of distinguished chemist Michael and of Magda Elizabeth Polanyi. The family moved to England in 1933 where Polanyi studied at the University of Manchester, his father's workplace, achieving his doctorate in 1952. Emigrating to Canada in 1952, he worked for the National Research Council of Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1956.
Through development of the technique of infrared chemiluminescence he developed the understanding of chemical kinetics. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1986.