ThePolanyi Medal is a biennial award of theRoyal Society of Chemistry for outstanding contributions to the field of gas kinetics. The medal is presented at theInternational Symposium on Gas Kinetics after a plenary lecture given by the prize winner.
The award is named after the Hungarian-British polymathMichael 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 [Wikidata] |
| 2012 | Mario Molina |
| 2010 | Stephen Leone |
| 2008 | Piero Casavecchia [Wikidata] |
| 2006 | Horst Hippler [de] |
| 2004 | David Clary |
| 2002 | Gus Hancock [Wikidata] |
| 2000 | Jürgen Wolfrum [de] |
| 1998 | Akkihebbal Ravishankara |
| 1996 | John Simons |
| 1994 | Mike Pilling [Wikidata][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 [Wikidata] |
| 1984 | Benton Seymour Rabinovitch |
| 1982 | Brian Thrush |
| 1981 | Dudley Herschbach |
| 1979 | Richard Zare |
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