Michael Polanyi is known as a philosopher who presented such ideas as tacit-knowledge or personal knowledge, generally speaking. But before changing his profession to philosophy, he had been an extremely active physical chemist, who dealt with diverse fields such as adsorption theory, chemical kinetics, X-ray diffraction, dislocation theory and so on. We find that he is even more extreme when we look at his key students and colleagues. Needless to say, John Polanyi is Michael’s son. Eugene Wigner was his doctor student. Herman Mark, Karl Weissenberg, Egon Orowan, Henry Eyring, M. G. Evans, and Melvin Calvin were members of his research team, or colleagues. It could be said that it was Polanyi who raised the next generation of leaders in modern physical chemistry from the 1930’s.
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