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Synopsis of Polanyi's Life
MEP = synopsis of Polanyi's life assembled by his wife, Magda E. Polanyi.
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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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1914-18 | 23-27 | 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). |
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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1933 | 42 |
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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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1946 | 55 |
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1948 | 57 |
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1949 | 58 | "Made Foreign Life Member of the Max Planck Gessellschaft" (MEP). |
1950 | 59 |
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1951 | 60 | The Logic of Liberty: Reflections and Rejoinders. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. |
1951-2 | 61-62 | Gifford Lectures, University of Aberdeen (basis of Personal Knowledge, PK ix). |
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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1959-1961 | 68-69 | Senior Research Fellowship at Merton College |
1960 | 69 |
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1961 | 70 |
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1962 | 71 |
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1962 | 71 |
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1962-1963 | 71-72 | "Fellow for the Center for Advanced Studies on Behavioral Science, Stanford University" (MEP). |
1963 | 72 | "Science and Religion: Separate Dimension or Common Ground?" Philosophy Today 7 (1963) 4-14. |
1964 | 73 |
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1965-1966 | 74-75 | Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University (TD, opposite title page). |
1965 | 74 | "The Structure of Consciousness," Brain 88 (1965) 799-810, reprinted in K&B, 211-224. |
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. |