John Charles Polanyi
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences
University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
Election motivation
For advancing the basic principle of chemical reactions a-molecule-at-a-time at a variety of semi-conductor and metallic surfaces, and constituting a ‘molecular printing press’ with the Ultra High Vacuum Scanning Tuneling Microscopes (STM).
Field of research
Physical Chemistry
Born
23 January 1929, Berlin, Germany
Main Honors
Member, Royal Society of Canada(1966)
Fellow, Royal Society of the United Kingdom(1971)
Foreign member, United States National Academy of Sciences(1978)
Won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry(1986)
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences