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Also Known As John Charles Polanyi
Born January 23, 1929 (age 96) • Berlin • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1986)
Subjects Of Study chemical reaction • infrared chemiluminescence • reaction mechanism
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Manfred Eigen
German physicist
Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
British chemist
Herschbach, Dudley R.
Dudley R. Herschbach
American chemist and educator
Yuan T. Lee
Taiwanese-American chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Herbert Charles Brown
American chemist
Ahmed H. Zewail
Ahmed H. Zewail
American-Egyptian chemist
Warshel, Arieh
Arieh Warshel
American-Israeli chemist
Levitt, Michael
Michael Levitt
American-British-Israeli chemist
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus
American-Austrian chemist
Roald Hoffmann
American chemist
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
British chemist
Carl Bosch
Carl Bosch
German chemist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist
Fukui Kenichi
Japanese chemist
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman
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Henry Taube
American chemist

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