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John Polanyi

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John Charles Polanyi (Hungarian: Polányi János Károly; born 23 January 1929) is a German-born Canadian chemist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in chemical kinetics. Polanyi was born into the prominent Hungarian Polányi (Pollacsek) family in Berlin, Germany, prior to emigrating in 1933 to the United Kingdom where he was subsequently educated at the University of Manchester, and did postdoctoral research at the National Research Council in Canada and Princeton University in New Jersey. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Polanyi has received more than 197,772 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). John Polanyi is the 288th most popular chemist (down from 247th in 2019), the 1,566th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,324th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular German Chemist.

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  • 3.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Polanyi ranks 288 out of 602. Before him are Henry Taube, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Thomas Midgley Jr., Rasmus Bartholin, and John Pople. After him are Erwin Chargaff, Ben Feringa, Alexander Butlerov, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Richard R. Schrock, and C. H. D. Buys Ballot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, John Polanyi ranks 115. Before him are Antonio Carbajal, Menahem Golan, Carlos Lacoste, Bob Newhart, June Carter Cash, and Kishore Kumar. After him are Nureddin al-Atassi, Heiner Müller, Reino Börjesson, Joan Plowright, Hugo Claus, and Jigme Dorji Wangchuck.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, John Polanyi ranks 1,566 out of 7,253. Before him are Leo Frobenius (1873), Julius Schaub (1898), Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774), Gottfried August Bürger (1747), Karin Dor (1938), and Johannes Steinhoff (1913). After him are Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia (1200), Franz Hössler (1906), Hans Knappertsbusch (1888), and Bruno Streckenbach (1902).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, John Polanyi ranks 52. Before him are Andreas Libavius (1555), Feodor Lynen (1911), Joachim Sauer (1949), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), and Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709). After him are Leopold Gmelin (1788), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), Clemens Winkler (1838), Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794), Thomas C. Südhof (1955), and Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806).

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