The Polanyi Medal is a biennial award of the Royal Society of Chemistry for outstanding contributions to the field of gas kinetics. The medal is presented at the International Symposium on Gas Kinetics after a plenary lecture given by the prize winner.
The award is named after the Hungarian-British polymath Michael Polanyi, 1891-1976, whose research helped to establish the topic of gas kinetics and reaction dynamics. His son, John Polanyi, received the Polanyi Medal in 1988. [1]
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2024 | Timothy J. Wallington |
2022 | Frédérique Battin-Leclerc [3] |
2020 | Stephen Klippenstein [4] |
2018 | Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts |
2016 | James Anderson |
2014 | Craig Taatjes |
2012 | Mario Molina |
2010 | Stephen Leone |
2008 | Piero Casavecchia |
2006 | Horst Hippler |
2004 | David Clary |
2002 | Gus Hancock |
2000 | Jürgen Wolfrum |
1998 | Akkihebbal Ravishankara |
1996 | John Simons |
1994 | Mike Pilling [5] |
1992 | Jurgen Tröe [sic] [6] |
1990 | Ian William Murison Smith |
1988 | John Polanyi |
1987 | Fred Kaufmann [sic] (awarded posthumously) [7] |
1986 | Sidney W. Benson |
1984 | Benton Seymour Rabinovitch |
1982 | Brian Thrush |
1981 | Dudley Herschbach |
1979 | Richard Zare |
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