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|align="right"|1891 | |align="right"|1891 | ||
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|Born in Budapest, Hungary, [March 11/12] (TD, opposite title page) of Viennese parents (family name changed from "Pollacsek" to "Polanyi" to sound more Magyar). | |Born in Budapest, Hungary, [March 11/12] (TD, opposite title page) of Viennese parents (family name changed from "Pollacsek" to "Polanyi" to sound more Magyar). | ||
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|align="right"|1899 | |align="right"|1899 | ||
|align="center"|8 | |align="center"|8 | ||
|"His father, who had been a civil engineer and was constructing and financing railways in Hungary, lost all his money" (MEP). | |"His father, who had been a civil engineer and was constructing and financing railways in Hungary, lost all his money" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1905 | |align="right"|1905 | ||
|align="center"|14 | |align="center"|14 | ||
|"The father died and Polanyi earned his living from that time by tutoring richer schoolmates" (MEP). | |"The father died and Polanyi earned his living from that time by tutoring richer schoolmates" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1913 | |align="right"|1913 | ||
|align="center"|22 | |align="center"|22 | ||
|"He left Budapest in 1913 and entered the Technical University in Karlsruhe, Germany, in order to study Chemistry" (MEP). | |"He left Budapest in 1913 and entered the Technical University in Karlsruhe, Germany, in order to study Chemistry" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1914 | |align="right"|1914 | ||
|align="center"|23 | |align="center"|23 | ||
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* Received doctoral degree in Medicine from the University of Budapest. | * Received doctoral degree in Medicine from the University of Budapest. | ||
* First paper on adsorption published (K&B, 87). | * First paper on adsorption published (K&B, 87). | ||
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− | |align="right"|1914 | + | |align="right"|1914 |
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− | |Medical officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army (K&B, 89). "His studies in Karlsruhe were interrupted in 1914 by the outbreak of the First World War; he joined the Austro-Hungarian army as a surgeon" (MEP). | + | |Medical officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, 1914 to 1918 (K&B, 89). "His studies in Karlsruhe were interrupted in 1914 by the outbreak of the First World War; he joined the Austro-Hungarian army as a surgeon" (MEP). |
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+ | |align="right"|1915 | ||
+ | |align="center"|24 | ||
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+ | |align="right"|1916 | ||
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|align="right"|1917 | |align="right"|1917 | ||
|align="center"|26 | |align="center"|26 | ||
|Theory of adsorption accepted as Ph.D. thesis in Physical Chemistry at University of Budapest thanks to the "complete ignorance of the professor of theoretical physics" (K&B, 93). | |Theory of adsorption accepted as Ph.D. thesis in Physical Chemistry at University of Budapest thanks to the "complete ignorance of the professor of theoretical physics" (K&B, 93). | ||
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|align="right"|1918 | |align="right"|1918 | ||
|align="center"|27 | |align="center"|27 | ||
|"In 1918 he acted as a lecturer at the University of Budapest under Professor G. von Hevesy" (MEP). | |"In 1918 he acted as a lecturer at the University of Budapest under Professor G. von Hevesy" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1919 | |align="right"|1919 | ||
|align="center"|28 | |align="center"|28 | ||
|Baptized a Catholic (apparently for the sake of convenience; Scott, "Religious Reality," 86). "In September 1919 he again went to Karlsruhe, working on theoretical studies in reaction velocity" (MEP). | |Baptized a Catholic (apparently for the sake of convenience; Scott, "Religious Reality," 86). "In September 1919 he again went to Karlsruhe, working on theoretical studies in reaction velocity" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1920 | |align="right"|1920 | ||
|align="center"|29 | |align="center"|29 | ||
|Institute of Fibre Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem (crystals, K&B, 97). "From September 1920 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Textile Chemistry, Berlin, he established the structure of cellulose, devised the Rotating Crystal Method for X-ray diagrams" (MEP). | |Institute of Fibre Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem (crystals, K&B, 97). "From September 1920 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Textile Chemistry, Berlin, he established the structure of cellulose, devised the Rotating Crystal Method for X-ray diagrams" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1923 | |align="right"|1923 | ||
|align="center"|32 | |align="center"|32 | ||
|Institute of Physcal Chemistry (reaction kinetics, K&B, 104). "In 1923 he became departmental Head under Haber at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical and Electro-Chemistry. He also became a Privatdozent at the University, Berlin" (MEP). | |Institute of Physcal Chemistry (reaction kinetics, K&B, 104). "In 1923 he became departmental Head under Haber at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical and Electro-Chemistry. He also became a Privatdozent at the University, Berlin" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1926 | |align="right"|1926 | ||
|align="center"|35 | |align="center"|35 | ||
|"Conferment of the title of Professor" (MEP). | |"Conferment of the title of Professor" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1929 | |align="right"|1929 | ||
|align="center"|37 | |align="center"|37 | ||
|Made Life Member of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physical Chemistry (TD, opposite title page). "After the second World War, the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft was re-named Max Planck Gesellschaft. Göttingen, Germany" (MEP). | |Made Life Member of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physical Chemistry (TD, opposite title page). "After the second World War, the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft was re-named Max Planck Gesellschaft. Göttingen, Germany" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1930 | |align="right"|1930 | ||
|align="center"|39 | |align="center"|39 | ||
|Joint paper with London, based on quantum-mechanical resonance and "inverse third power law" (K&B, 90). | |Joint paper with London, based on quantum-mechanical resonance and "inverse third power law" (K&B, 90). | ||
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|align="right"|1932 | |align="right"|1932 | ||
|align="center"|41 | |align="center"|41 | ||
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* November: preparing to resign (MEP). | * November: preparing to resign (MEP). | ||
* December: "accepted the Chair of Physical Chemistry in the University of Manchester, England" (MEP). | * December: "accepted the Chair of Physical Chemistry in the University of Manchester, England" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1933 | |align="right"|1933 | ||
|align="center"|42 | |align="center"|42 | ||
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* Elected Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Victoria University of Manchester, England (TD, opposite title page). | * Elected Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Victoria University of Manchester, England (TD, opposite title page). | ||
* "Foreign Member of the Society of Science, Letters, and Arts, Naples" (MEP). | * "Foreign Member of the Society of Science, Letters, and Arts, Naples" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1935 | |align="right"|1935 | ||
|align="center"|44 | |align="center"|44 | ||
|"I first met questions of philosophy when I came up against the Soviet ideology under Stalin which denied justification to the pursuit of science" (TD, 3). In this decade, Polanyi also moved from chemistry to economics and social analysis. | |"I first met questions of philosophy when I came up against the Soviet ideology under Stalin which denied justification to the pursuit of science" (TD, 3). In this decade, Polanyi also moved from chemistry to economics and social analysis. | ||
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|align="right"|1936 | |align="right"|1936 | ||
|align="center"|45 | |align="center"|45 | ||
|''USSR Economics: Fundamental Data, System and Spirit''. Manchester University Press, 25 pp. | |''USSR Economics: Fundamental Data, System and Spirit''. Manchester University Press, 25 pp. | ||
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|align="right"|1938 | |align="right"|1938 | ||
|align="center"|47 | |align="center"|47 | ||
|"In 1938 (?) asked by Professor [George P. Thomson] to take charge of the British section of the Atomic Project. He declined, as all the names were those of refugees who were put on a "hopeless project." A grave misjudgment" (MEP). [MXM: Bill Scott and Monika Tobin could not confirm this claim by Magda.] | |"In 1938 (?) asked by Professor [George P. Thomson] to take charge of the British section of the Atomic Project. He declined, as all the names were those of refugees who were put on a "hopeless project." A grave misjudgment" (MEP). [MXM: Bill Scott and Monika Tobin could not confirm this claim by Magda.] | ||
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|align="right"|1940 | |align="right"|1940 | ||
|align="center"|49 | |align="center"|49 | ||
|''The Contempt of Freedom''. London: Watts and Company, 1940. | |''The Contempt of Freedom''. London: Watts and Company, 1940. | ||
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|align="right"|1944 | |align="right"|1944 | ||
|align="center"|53 | |align="center"|53 | ||
|Fellow of the Royal Society | |Fellow of the Royal Society | ||
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|align="right"|1945 | |align="right"|1945 | ||
|align="center"|54 | |align="center"|54 | ||
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* ''Full Employment and Free Trade''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | * ''Full Employment and Free Trade''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | ||
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|align="right"|1946 | |align="right"|1946 | ||
|align="center"|55 | |align="center"|55 | ||
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− | *''Science, Faith and Society'' | + | * Riddell Lecturer. The lectures were published as ''Science, Faith and Society'' (London: Oxford University Press). |
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+ | |align="right"|1947 | ||
+ | |align="center"|56 | ||
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* Lloyd Roberts Lecturer, Manchester. | * Lloyd Roberts Lecturer, Manchester. | ||
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|align="right"|1948 | |align="right"|1948 | ||
|align="center"|57 | |align="center"|57 | ||
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− | * " . . . retired from the professional pursuit of science to take up philosophy" (K&B, 87). "Manchester University has made it possible for me to accept the invitation of Aberdeen and to spend nine years almost exclusively on the preparation of this book. The generosity of Senate and Council in allowing me to exchange my Chair of Physical Chemistry for a Professorial appointment without lecturing duties . . . " (PK, ix). | + | * " . . . retired from the professional pursuit of science to take up philosophy" (K&B, 87). "Manchester University has made it possible for me to accept the invitation of Aberdeen and to spend nine years almost exclusively on the preparation of this book. The generosity of Senate and Council in allowing me to exchange my Chair of Physical Chemistry for a Professorial appointment without lecturing duties . . . " (PK, ix). The appointment was in the Faculty of Economics and Social Studies (MPSP, 211). |
* " . . . I turned to philosophy as an afterthought to my career as a scientist" (TD, 3). | * " . . . I turned to philosophy as an afterthought to my career as a scientist" (TD, 3). | ||
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|align="right"|1949 | |align="right"|1949 | ||
|align="center"|58 | |align="center"|58 | ||
|"Made Foreign Life Member of the Max Planck Gessellschaft" (MEP). | |"Made Foreign Life Member of the Max Planck Gessellschaft" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1950 | |align="right"|1950 | ||
|align="center"|59 | |align="center"|59 | ||
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* "Scientific Beliefs," ''Ethics'' 61 (1950) 27-37. | * "Scientific Beliefs," ''Ethics'' 61 (1950) 27-37. | ||
* "This work owes much to Dr. Marjorie Grene. The moment we first talked about it in Chicago in 1950 she seemed to have guessed my whole purpose, and ever since she has never ceased to help its pursuit. Setting aside her own work as a philosopher, she has devoted herself for years to the service of the present enquiry. Our discussions have catalysed its progress at every stage and there is hardly a page that has not benefited from her criticism. She has a share in anything that I may have achieved here" (PK, ix). | * "This work owes much to Dr. Marjorie Grene. The moment we first talked about it in Chicago in 1950 she seemed to have guessed my whole purpose, and ever since she has never ceased to help its pursuit. Setting aside her own work as a philosopher, she has devoted herself for years to the service of the present enquiry. Our discussions have catalysed its progress at every stage and there is hardly a page that has not benefited from her criticism. She has a share in anything that I may have achieved here" (PK, ix). | ||
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|align="right"|1951 | |align="right"|1951 | ||
|align="center"|60 | |align="center"|60 | ||
− | |''The Logic of Liberty: Reflections and Rejoinders''. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. | + | | |
− | |- | + | * ''The Logic of Liberty: Reflections and Rejoinders''. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. |
− | |align="right"| | + | * Gifford Lectures, University of Aberdeen, 1951-1952 (basis of ''Personal Knowledge'', PK ix). |
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|align="right"|1953 | |align="right"|1953 | ||
|align="center"|62 | |align="center"|62 | ||
|"Science and Conscience," ''Religion in Life'' 23 (1953) 47-58. | |"Science and Conscience," ''Religion in Life'' 23 (1953) 47-58. | ||
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|align="right"|1954 | |align="right"|1954 | ||
|align="center"|63 | |align="center"|63 | ||
|Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago | |Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago | ||
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|align="right"|1958 | |align="right"|1958 | ||
|align="center"|67 | |align="center"|67 | ||
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* ''Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy'' (epistemology; endorsed Protestant theology). Chicago, University of Chicago Press. | * ''Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy'' (epistemology; endorsed Protestant theology). Chicago, University of Chicago Press. | ||
* "Lindsay Lecturer. First Lindsay Memorial Lecture, Keele University" (MEP). | * "Lindsay Lecturer. First Lindsay Memorial Lecture, Keele University" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1959 | |align="right"|1959 | ||
|align="center"|68 | |align="center"|68 | ||
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* ''The Study of Man'' -- "a theory of historiography" (TD, ix). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | * ''The Study of Man'' -- "a theory of historiography" (TD, ix). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | ||
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|align="right"|1960 | |align="right"|1960 | ||
|align="center"|69 | |align="center"|69 | ||
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* "Gunning Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh" (MEP). | * "Gunning Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh" (MEP). | ||
* "J. C. Bose Lecturer, Calcutta" (MEP). | * "J. C. Bose Lecturer, Calcutta" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1961 | |align="right"|1961 | ||
|align="center"|70 | |align="center"|70 | ||
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* "Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Virginia" (MEP). First public lectures on the substance of ''The Tacit Dimension'' (TD, acknowledgments). | * "Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Virginia" (MEP). First public lectures on the substance of ''The Tacit Dimension'' (TD, acknowledgments). | ||
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* "Faith and Reason," ''The Journal of Religion'' 41 (1961) 237-47. | * "Faith and Reason," ''The Journal of Religion'' 41 (1961) 237-47. | ||
* "Knowing and Being," Mind 70 (1961) 458-70, reprinted in K&B, 123-37. | * "Knowing and Being," Mind 70 (1961) 458-70, reprinted in K&B, 123-37. | ||
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|align="right"|1962 | |align="right"|1962 | ||
|align="center"|71 | |align="center"|71 | ||
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− | * Terry Lectures at Yale, from which The Tacit Dimension was developed (TD, acknowledgments | + | * McEnerney Lecture at Berkeley, California. |
+ | * Terry Lectures at Yale, from which The Tacit Dimension was developed (TD, acknowledgments). | ||
* "Made Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science" (MEP). | * "Made Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1962 | |align="right"|1962 | ||
|align="center"|71 | |align="center"|71 | ||
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* "Terry Lecturer at Yale" (MEP). | * "Terry Lecturer at Yale" (MEP). | ||
* "Elected a Member of the International Acadmey of Philosophy of Science" (MEP). | * "Elected a Member of the International Acadmey of Philosophy of Science" (MEP). | ||
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− | |align="right"|1962 | + | |align="right"|1962 |
− | |align="center"|71 | + | |align="center"|71 |
− | |"Fellow for the Center for Advanced Studies on Behavioral Science, Stanford University" (MEP). | + | |"Fellow for the Center for Advanced Studies on Behavioral Science, Stanford University," 1962-1963 (MEP). |
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|align="right"|1963 | |align="right"|1963 | ||
|align="center"|72 | |align="center"|72 | ||
|"Science and Religion: Separate Dimension or Common Ground?" Philosophy Today 7 (1963) 4-14. | |"Science and Religion: Separate Dimension or Common Ground?" Philosophy Today 7 (1963) 4-14. | ||
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|align="right"|1964 | |align="right"|1964 | ||
|align="center"|73 | |align="center"|73 | ||
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* "James Duke Visiting Professor at Duke Univeristy, North Carolina" (MEP). | * "James Duke Visiting Professor at Duke Univeristy, North Carolina" (MEP). | ||
* Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto (TD, acknowledgments). | * Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto (TD, acknowledgments). | ||
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|align="right"|1965 | |align="right"|1965 | ||
|align="center"|74 | |align="center"|74 | ||
− | |"The Structure of Consciousness," ''Brain'' 88 (1965) 799-810, reprinted in K&B, 211-224. | + | | |
− | |- | + | * Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University, 1965-1966 (TD, opposite title page). [http://www.polanyisociety.org/WesleyanLectures/WesleyanLecturesIntro.htm Wesleyan Lectures.] |
+ | * "The Structure of Consciousness," ''Brain'' 88 (1965) 799-810, reprinted in K&B, 211-224. | ||
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|align="right"|1966 | |align="right"|1966 | ||
|align="center"|75 | |align="center"|75 | ||
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* "The Logic of Tacit Inference," ''Philosophy'' 41 (1966) 1-16, reprinted in K&B, 138-158. | * "The Logic of Tacit Inference," ''Philosophy'' 41 (1966) 1-16, reprinted in K&B, 138-158. | ||
* "Faith and Reason," ''Journal of Religion'' 41 (1961), reprinted in Scientific Thought and Social Reality. | * "Faith and Reason," ''Journal of Religion'' 41 (1961), reprinted in Scientific Thought and Social Reality. | ||
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|align="right"|1967 | |align="right"|1967 | ||
|align="center"|76 | |align="center"|76 | ||
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* "Sense-Giving and Sense-Reading," ''Philosophy'' 12 (1967) 301-321, reprinted in K&B, 181-207. | * "Sense-Giving and Sense-Reading," ''Philosophy'' 12 (1967) 301-321, reprinted in K&B, 181-207. | ||
* "Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago" (MEP). | * "Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1968 | |align="right"|1968 | ||
|align="center"|77 | |align="center"|77 | ||
|"Life's Irreducible Structure," ''Science'' 160 (1968) 1308-1312, reprinted in K&B, 225-239. | |"Life's Irreducible Structure," ''Science'' 160 (1968) 1308-1312, reprinted in K&B, 225-239. | ||
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|align="right"|1969 | |align="right"|1969 | ||
|align="center"|78 | |align="center"|78 | ||
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* ''Knowing and Being''. Edited by Marjorie Grene. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | * ''Knowing and Being''. Edited by Marjorie Grene. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | ||
* "On Body and Mind," ''New Scholasticism'' 43 (1969) 195-204. | * "On Body and Mind," ''New Scholasticism'' 43 (1969) 195-204. | ||
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|align="right"|1970 | |align="right"|1970 | ||
|align="center"|79 | |align="center"|79 | ||
|"Nuffield Gold Medal, Royal Society of Medicine" (MEP). | |"Nuffield Gold Medal, Royal Society of Medicine" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1971 | |align="right"|1971 | ||
|align="center"|80 | |align="center"|80 | ||
|"Visiting Professor at Austin University, Texas" (MEP). | |"Visiting Professor at Austin University, Texas" (MEP). | ||
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|align="right"|1974 | |align="right"|1974 | ||
|align="center"|83 | |align="center"|83 | ||
|''Scientific Thought and Social Reality: Essays by Michael Polanyi'', edited by Fred Schwartz. New York: International Universities Press. | |''Scientific Thought and Social Reality: Essays by Michael Polanyi'', edited by Fred Schwartz. New York: International Universities Press. | ||
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|align="right"|1975 | |align="right"|1975 | ||
|align="center"|84 | |align="center"|84 | ||
|''Meaning'', with Harry Prosch (dealing, in part , with aesthetics). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |''Meaning'', with Harry Prosch (dealing, in part , with aesthetics). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | ||
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|align="right"|1976 | |align="right"|1976 | ||
|align="center"|85 | |align="center"|85 | ||
|Died February 22. | |Died February 22. | ||
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|align="right"|1977 | |align="right"|1977 | ||
|align="center"| | |align="center"| | ||
|William T. Scott, a physicist, began work on Polanyi's biography. | |William T. Scott, a physicist, began work on Polanyi's biography. | ||
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|align="right"|1997 | |align="right"|1997 | ||
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|Martin X. Moleski, SJ, a theologian, began to rewrite Scott's manuscript. | |Martin X. Moleski, SJ, a theologian, began to rewrite Scott's manuscript. | ||
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|align="right"|1999 | |align="right"|1999 | ||
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|Scott died on February 22--twenty-three years to the day after Polanyi died. | |Scott died on February 22--twenty-three years to the day after Polanyi died. | ||
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|align="right"|2005 | |align="right"|2005 | ||
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|Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher (Oxford University Press) by William T. Scott and Martin X. Moleski, SJ. | |Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher (Oxford University Press) by William T. Scott and Martin X. Moleski, SJ. | ||
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+ | |align="right"|2015 | ||
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+ | |Polanyi Society wiki opened. | ||
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[[Category:Biography]] | [[Category:Biography]] |
Latest revision as of 16:31, 2 January 2019
MEP = synopsis of Polanyi's life assembled by his wife, Magda E. Polanyi.
MPSP = Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher.
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1891 | Born in Budapest, Hungary, [March 11/12] (TD, opposite title page) of Viennese parents (family name changed from "Pollacsek" to "Polanyi" to sound more Magyar). | |
1899 | 8 | "His father, who had been a civil engineer and was constructing and financing railways in Hungary, lost all his money" (MEP). |
1905 | 14 | "The father died and Polanyi earned his living from that time by tutoring richer schoolmates" (MEP). |
1913 | 22 | "He left Budapest in 1913 and entered the Technical University in Karlsruhe, Germany, in order to study Chemistry" (MEP). |
1914 | 23 |
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1914 | 23 | Medical officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, 1914 to 1918 (K&B, 89). "His studies in Karlsruhe were interrupted in 1914 by the outbreak of the First World War; he joined the Austro-Hungarian army as a surgeon" (MEP). |
1915 | 24 | |
1916 | 25 | |
1917 | 26 | Theory of adsorption accepted as Ph.D. thesis in Physical Chemistry at University of Budapest thanks to the "complete ignorance of the professor of theoretical physics" (K&B, 93). |
1918 | 27 | "In 1918 he acted as a lecturer at the University of Budapest under Professor G. von Hevesy" (MEP). |
1919 | 28 | Baptized a Catholic (apparently for the sake of convenience; Scott, "Religious Reality," 86). "In September 1919 he again went to Karlsruhe, working on theoretical studies in reaction velocity" (MEP). |
1920 | 29 | Institute of Fibre Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem (crystals, K&B, 97). "From September 1920 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Textile Chemistry, Berlin, he established the structure of cellulose, devised the Rotating Crystal Method for X-ray diagrams" (MEP). |
1923 | 32 | Institute of Physcal Chemistry (reaction kinetics, K&B, 104). "In 1923 he became departmental Head under Haber at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical and Electro-Chemistry. He also became a Privatdozent at the University, Berlin" (MEP). |
1926 | 35 | "Conferment of the title of Professor" (MEP). |
1929 | 37 | Made Life Member of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physical Chemistry (TD, opposite title page). "After the second World War, the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft was re-named Max Planck Gesellschaft. Göttingen, Germany" (MEP). |
1930 | 39 | Joint paper with London, based on quantum-mechanical resonance and "inverse third power law" (K&B, 90). |
1932 | 41 |
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1935 | 44 | "I first met questions of philosophy when I came up against the Soviet ideology under Stalin which denied justification to the pursuit of science" (TD, 3). In this decade, Polanyi also moved from chemistry to economics and social analysis. |
1936 | 45 | USSR Economics: Fundamental Data, System and Spirit. Manchester University Press, 25 pp. |
1938 | 47 | "In 1938 (?) asked by Professor [George P. Thomson] to take charge of the British section of the Atomic Project. He declined, as all the names were those of refugees who were put on a "hopeless project." A grave misjudgment" (MEP). [MXM: Bill Scott and Monika Tobin could not confirm this claim by Magda.] |
1940 | 49 | The Contempt of Freedom. London: Watts and Company, 1940. |
1944 | 53 | Fellow of the Royal Society |
1945 | 54 |
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1947 | 56 |
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1949 | 58 | "Made Foreign Life Member of the Max Planck Gessellschaft" (MEP). |
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1953 | 62 | "Science and Conscience," Religion in Life 23 (1953) 47-58. |
1954 | 63 | Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago |
1958 | 67 |
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1959 | 68 |
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1960 | 69 |
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1961 | 70 |
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1962 | 71 |
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1962 | 71 |
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1962 | 71 | "Fellow for the Center for Advanced Studies on Behavioral Science, Stanford University," 1962-1963 (MEP). |
1963 | 72 | "Science and Religion: Separate Dimension or Common Ground?" Philosophy Today 7 (1963) 4-14. |
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1965 | 74 |
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1966 | 75 |
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1967 | 76 |
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1968 | 77 | "Life's Irreducible Structure," Science 160 (1968) 1308-1312, reprinted in K&B, 225-239. |
1969 | 78 |
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1970 | 79 | "Nuffield Gold Medal, Royal Society of Medicine" (MEP). |
1971 | 80 | "Visiting Professor at Austin University, Texas" (MEP). |
1974 | 83 | Scientific Thought and Social Reality: Essays by Michael Polanyi, edited by Fred Schwartz. New York: International Universities Press. |
1975 | 84 | Meaning, with Harry Prosch (dealing, in part , with aesthetics). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. |
1976 | 85 | Died February 22. |
1977 | William T. Scott, a physicist, began work on Polanyi's biography. | |
1997 | Martin X. Moleski, SJ, a theologian, began to rewrite Scott's manuscript. | |
1999 | Scott died on February 22--twenty-three years to the day after Polanyi died. | |
2005 | Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher (Oxford University Press) by William T. Scott and Martin X. Moleski, SJ. | |
2015 | Polanyi Society wiki opened. |