John Polanyi
University Professor and Professor of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures
October 13, 1994University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
About John Polanyi
John Polanyi is a Canadian chemist and the 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry. He won the prize jointly with Yuan T. Lee and Dudley R. Herschbach “for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.” His research focuses on chemical kinetics; studying the development of the infrared chemiluminescence technique. He currently serves as University Professor at the University of Toronto.