NSERC president Suzanne Fortier, FCIC, has announced
that Nobel Laureate John C. Polanyi, HFCIC, is the winner of the Gerhard
Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and
Engineering.
NSERC president Suzanne Fortier, FCIC, has announced that Nobel
Laureate John C. Polanyi, HFCIC, is the winner of the Gerhard Herzberg
Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. Polanyi is a professor of
chemistry at the University of Toronto. He has spent his pioneering
career investigating molecular motions in chemical reactions. In 1986,
he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work uncovering the
movements of molecules in chemical reactions. Most recently, he has used
scanning tunneling microscopes to characterize the reactions of
individual molecules and thus fabricate molecular structures that are
less than a thousandth the width of a human hair.
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