Jc Polanyi

Biography

John Charles Polanyi, educated at Manchester University, England, was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, USA and the National Research Council, Canada. He is presently a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto. His research is on the molecular motions in chemical reactions in gases and at surfaces. He has made outstanding contribution in the field of molecular reaction dynamics, including transition state spectroscopy and surface aligned photochemistry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), Royal Society of London (FRS), and of Edinburgh (FRSE), also of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Rome and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (PC), and a Companion of the Order of Canada (CC). His awards include the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London, and over thirty honorary degrees from six countries.

Research Interest

Molecular Reaction Dynamics