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Michael Polanyi: Science as Personal Knowledge and Social Practice
Author(s) -
Nye Mary Jo
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201610716
Subject(s) - biography , tacit knowledge , perspective (graphical) , sociology , art history , epistemology , philosophy , history , art , visual arts
Tacit knowing : 2016 marked the 125th anniversary of the birth of the physical chemist Michael Polanyi, as well as the 40th of his death. This essay discusses his philosophy of science—in particular, his most significant work in this area, Personal Knowledge —from the perspective of his personal biography, as well as its lasting influence on the social sciences. In the photograph: Michael Polanyi at the Fritz Haber Institute in 1968.