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DR. MICHAEL POLANYI has accepted a chair of physical chemistry in the University of Manchester, and will take up the post at the beginning of the next session. Dr. Polanyi, who is a Hungarian by birth, studied medicine in the University of Budapest and chemistry in the Technical High School of Karlsruhe. After service as surgeon with the Austrian forces during the War, he became assistant to Prof. Hevessy, professor of theoretical chemistry at the University of Budapest. In 1919 he returned to Karlsruhe, since when he has held posts in the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute for Textile Chemistry, the Technical High School in Berlin, and the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute for Physical and Electro-chemistry. Dr. Polanyi is a well-known physical chemist. His first notable research was a theory of adsorption, published in 1917; he has also made discoveries in connexion with the structure of cellulose and the mechanical properties of metals and other solids. His present investigations relate to the theoretical and experimental study of reaction kinetics and the mechanism of chemical reactions. It is this line of research which, it is anticipated, he will pursue in Manchester.
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Dr. Michael Polanyi. Nature 131, 902 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131902a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131902a0