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Michael Polanyi: Patriarch of Chemical Dynamics and Tacit Knowing
Author(s) -
Herschbach Dudley R.
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.201610968
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , art history , tacit knowledge , philosophy , sociology , epistemology , humanities , art , medicine , radiology
Connecting Science and the Humanities was the title of the symposium on Michael Polanyi that took place at the Technische Universität Berlin (Technical University of Berlin) in October 2016. This essay, which appraises the scientific and philosophical contributions of Michael Polanyi, is based on the presentation given by Dr. Herschbach on this occasion. In the photograph: Polanyi in 1931.