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John Polanyi

1929 - Today

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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 187,565 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). John Polanyi is the 247th most popular chemist (up from 259th in 2019), the 1,324th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,460th in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Polanyi ranks 247 out of 509Before him are Ida Noddack, Hermann Kolbe, Edward W. Morley, Donald J. Cram, Jaroslav Heyrovský, and Vincent du Vigneaud. After him are Michael Polanyi, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Thomas Graham, Karl Barry Sharpless, and Charles François de Cisternay du Fay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, John Polanyi ranks 100Before him are Ivar Giaever, Yozo Aoki, Alasdair MacIntyre, Georgi Markov, Nicolai Ghiaurov, and Bob Denard. After him are June Carter Cash, Kjell Askildsen, Věra Chytilová, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Eva Schloss, and Chespirito.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, John Polanyi ranks 1,324 out of 6,142Before him are Brigitte Helm (1906), Franciscus Sylvius (1614), Georg Kaiser (1878), Prince Charles of Prussia (1801), Princess Anna of Prussia (1836), and Otto Kumm (1909). After him are Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal (1861), Hildegard Knef (1925), Tilman Riemenschneider (1460), Oskar Morgenstern (1902), Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878), and Lucius Antonius Saturninus (20).

Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, John Polanyi ranks 47Before him are Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), Feodor Lynen (1911), Franz Karl Achard (1753), Friedrich Sertürner (1783), Henri Victor Regnault (1810), and Hermann Kolbe (1818). After him are Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), Hartmut Michel (1948), Andreas Libavius (1555), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), and Leopold Gmelin (1788).