Michael Polanyi FRS (/poʊˈlænji/ poh-LAN-yee; Hungarian: Polányi Mihály; 11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made important...
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The Michael Polanyi Center (MPC) at Baylor University, Texas, was the first center at a research university exclusively dedicated to the principle of...
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John Charles Polanyi PC CC FRSC OOnt FRS (Hungarian: Polányi János Károly; born 23 January 1929) is a German-born Canadian chemist. He was awarded the...
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Karl Paul Polanyi (/poʊˈlænji/; Hungarian: Polányi Károly [ˈpolaːɲi ˈkaːroj]; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964) was an Austro-Hungarian economic anthropologist...
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Polányi, Polanyi is a surname. There have been a number of prominent individuals in the Polanyi family, illustrated in the following family tree: Adolf...
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potential theory of Polanyi, also called Polanyi adsorption potential theory, is a model of adsorption proposed by Michael Polanyi where adsorption can...
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Polanyi's paradox, named in honour of the British-Hungarian philosopher Michael Polanyi, is the theory that human knowledge of how the world functions...
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knowing is attributed to Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge (1958). In his later work, The Tacit Dimension (1966), Polanyi made the assertion that "we...
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Eyring equation (redirect from Eyring-Polanyi equation)
simultaneously in 1935 by Henry Eyring, Meredith Gwynne Evans and Michael Polanyi. The equation follows from the transition state theory, also known...
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to establish the Michael Polanyi Center at the university. Named after the Hungarian physical chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi (1891–1976), Dembski...
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polymath Michael Polanyi, 1891-1976, whose research helped to establish the topic of gas kinetics and reaction dynamics. His son, John Polanyi, received...
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Thomas Kuhn (section Polanyi–Kuhn debate)
terminologies, both Kuhn and Michael Polanyi believed that scientists' subjective experiences made science a relativized discipline. Polanyi lectured on this topic...
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Kari Polanyi Levitt (born June 14, 1923) is an Austrian-born Canadian economist, currently Emerita Professor of Economics at McGill University, Montreal...
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Rényi, mathematician Peter Lax, mathematician Michael Polanyi, physical chemist, graduated in 1908 Karl Polanyi, historian Geza Schay [de], mathematician...
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needed] They are influenced by the scientist turned philosopher Michael Polanyi. Polanyi's ideas were taken up enthusiastically by T. F. Torrance, whose...
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Moore, influences on Koch include Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith, Michael Polanyi, Joseph Schumpeter, Julian Simon, Paul Johnson, Thomas Sowell, Charles...
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Eva Zeisel (redirect from Eva Polanyi Stricker)
reliability as a narrator. Zeisel's uncles were Karl Polanyi, a sociologist and economist, and Michael Polanyi, a physical chemist and philosopher of science...
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agents are not always the best judges of their own maxims or motives. Michael Polanyi in his account of tacit knowledge stressed the importance of the maxim...
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These distinct aspects were also present in the economic thought of Michael Polanyi. Whereas the former stressed the theoretical underpinnings of a market...
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originally developed by Vito Volterra in 1907. In 1934, Egon Orowan, Michael Polanyi and G. I. Taylor, proposed that the low stresses observed to produce...
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Falkland Islands commonly referred to as the Mount Pleasant Complex Michael Polanyi Center, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, US Mindanao Polytechnic College...
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atheists in the late 20th century. A text of the broadcast solicited by Michael Polanyi appeared in the final Autumn 1948 issue of the short-lived Humanitas...
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of chemical reactions, formulated by Eugene Wigner, Henry Eyring, Michael Polanyi and M. G. Evans in the 1930s. The Eyring equation can be written: k...
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Eyring, then at Princeton University, and by Meredith Gwynne Evans and Michael Polanyi of the University of Manchester. TST is also referred to as "activated-complex...
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Conversations with Martin Buber, Paul Tillich, B.F. Skinner, Gregory Bateson, Michael Polanyi, Rollo May, and Others. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Lipset, D. (1982)...
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energy surface was proposed for the H + H2 reaction by Henry Eyring and Michael Polanyi in 1931. Eyring used potential energy surfaces to calculate reaction...
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Cecília Wohl (redirect from Cecília Polányi)
rabbinic seminary Osher Leyzerovich Vol, and the mother of Karl Polanyi and Michael Polanyi. See detailed genealogical information on the Vol family at JewishGen...
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Commentators, such as the historian Richard Pipes, the philosopher Michael Polanyi, and economists, such as Paul Craig Roberts or Sheldon L. Richman,...
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paper. In 1934, Orowan, roughly contemporarily with G. I. Taylor and Michael Polanyi, realized that the plastic deformation of ductile materials could be...
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the topic of narcissism in science. and a book on the philosophy of Michael Polanyi. Lemaitre obtained a PhD in genetics from the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie...
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