Authorised form of name | Polanyi; Michael (1891 - 1976) |
Other forms of name | Polanyi, Mihaly |
Surname | Polanyi |
Forenames | Michael |
Dates | 1891 - 1976 |
Dates and places | Birth: Budapest, Hungary (12 March 1891) Death: Northampton (22 February 1976) |
Activity | Research Field: Chemistry, philosophy, sociology |
Royal Society activity | Membership: Fellow Election Date: 16/03/1944 |
Relationships | Father of John Charles Polanyi (FRS 1971) |
Sources | Sources: DSB vol 18 pp 718-721 Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1977 vol 23 pp 413-448, plate, by E P Wigner and R A Hodgkin References: P H Plesch, 'Symposium on Friedel-Crafts Catalysts and Polymerization' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 135-141 |
Royal Society code | NA8008 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference number | Title | Date |
PB/9/1/95 | Correspondence with Michael Polanyi | 1939-1942 |
PB/8/6/7 | Papers and talks on science and society by others, collected by Blackett, many annotated by him. | c.1943-1945 |
PB/4/8/53/12 | Correspondence with Louis T Winkler (also JG Crowther and Michael Polanyi) | 1942 |
MS/866 | Paper, "The growth of thought in society", by Michael Polanyi | 1941 |
IM/GA/WRS/8670 | Polanyi, Michael | nd |
RR/69/225 | Referee's report by Michael Polanyi, on a paper 'Some thermodynamical properties of gaseous sulphur dichloride' by C A McDowell and E A Moelwyn-Hughes | 1945 |
RR/70/76 | Referee's report by Michael Polanyi, on a paper 'The second virial coefficient of a gas of non-spherical molecules' by J Corner | 1947 |
RR/72/247 | Referee's report by Michael Polanyi, on a paper 'The dissociation energy of the N-N bond in hydrazine' by Michael Szwarc | 1949 |
RR/72/248 | Referee's report by Michael Polanyi, on a paper 'The dissociation energy of the C-N bond in benzylamine' by Michael Szwarc | 1949 |
RR/69/195 | Referee's report by Michael Polanyi, on two papers 'The adsorption of vapours on mercury. Parts I and II' by Charles Kemball and Eric Keightley Rideal | 24 January 1946 |
EC/1944/15 | Polanyi, Michael: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |