John Polanyi
= John Polanyi
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John Polanyi is a Canadian chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 for his contributions to the understanding of chemical reaction dynamics. He is renowned for his work using infrared spectroscopy to study the motion of atoms in molecules during chemical reactions, which has greatly contributed to the field of chemical kinetics and the understanding of how reactions occur at the molecular level.