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John Polanyi

John Polanyi

Geoffrey Hinton attends a celebration event and stands on stage.

‘One of the great minds of the 21st century’: U of T celebrates Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel Prize

October 21, 2024

There were standing ovations, peals of laughter and even a few tears as the University of Toronto welcomed Geoffrey Hinton back to campus after he won the 2024 Nobel Prize

Lash Miller Building transformation: Unveiling John Polanyi Research Wing with new portrait celebrating Nobel Laureate's legacy

September 18, 2024

The transformation of the Lash Miller Building continued throughout summer 2024, with the naming of the John Polanyi Research Wing.

New exhibit celebrates U of T chemist John Polanyi's Nobel Prize-winning work in reaction dynamics

May 27, 2024

The pioneering work of University of Toronto chemist John Polanyi is the focus of a new exhibit permanently installed at the Lash Miller Building, home of the Department of Chemistry in the Faculty of Arts & Science.

University of Toronto celebrates career of Nobel Prize-winning Professor Emeritus John C. Polanyi

November 17, 2022

On Nov. 3, the Faculty of Arts & Science hosted a special evening celebrating the illustrious career of University of Toronto Professor Emeritus John C.

John Polanyi in front of Convocation Hall at U of T

Nuclear powers and Canada should engage with cause of nuclear prohibition: John Polanyi in the Globe and Mail

July 11, 2022

The UN Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) holds the key to averting nuclear war — but only if the world’s nuclear powers and NATO members like Canada come together for the cause of peace and restraint, according to the University of Toronto’s

What Andrei Sakharov taught us about science and freedom: U of T's John Polanyi in the Globe and Mail

March 23, 2022

As Russian government’s war in Ukraine continues, John Polanyi, a Nobel laureate and University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry at the Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto, has written an op-ed in

Matthew Timm, Lydie Leung, John Polanyi and Kelvin Anggara.

Discovery of 'knock-on chemistry' opens new frontier in reaction dynamics

March 02, 2021

Research by a team of chemists at the University of Toronto, led by Nobel Prize-winning researcher John Polanyi, is shedding new light on the behaviour of molecules as they collide and exchange atoms during chemical reaction.

John Polanyi at the George Ignatieff Theatre.

Nobel Laureate John Polanyi: 'What can we do to prevent nuclear war?'

November 08, 2019

In August 2019, six months after the contentious breakdown of talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and mere days after joint U.S.- South Korea military exercises ended, North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan.

We must never give up on abolishing nuclear weapons, says U of T's John Polanyi in the Globe and Mail

June 07, 2019

Allied planes dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 – the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war.

University of Toronto chemists taste 'forbidden fruit' of reaction dynamics

October 05, 2018

Discovery advances ability to control chemical reactions.

Scientists at the University of Toronto have found a way to select the outcome of chemical reaction by employing an elusive and long-sought factor known as the ‘impact parameter’.

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