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Michael Polanyi FRS [1] (/ p oʊ ˈ l æ n j i / poh-LAN-yee; Hungarian: Polányi Mihály; 11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British [2] polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy.
The Polanyi's were non-observant Jews, although Michael Polanyi became a Christian. In 1958, Polanyi married Anne Ferrar Davidson (1929–2013). [31] He has two children – a daughter, Margaret, born in 1961 and a son, Michael, born in 1963. [6] His daughter is a journalist, and his son is a political scientist who started his career as a ...
Polanyi's paradox, named in honour of the British-Hungarian philosopher Michael Polanyi, is the theory that human knowledge of how the world functions and of our own capability are, to a large extent, beyond our explicit understanding.
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Karl Polanyi began his teaching position at Columbia University. He commuted to New York City from Canada. In 1964, Karl Polanyi died. After Polanyi's death, she supervised the editing and publication of his posthumous works, and the translation of much of his oeuvre into Hungarian and several other languages. [2]
Elizabeth Taylor (seated center) arrives with her children — (left to right) Michael Wilding Jr., Christopher Wilding, Maria Burton and Liza Todd Burton — for her 75th birthday party at the ...
Here's everything you need to know about Oppenheimer's two children and what has happened in the 56 years since their father's death. J. Robert Oppenheimer's wife, Katherine, daughter Kit and son ...
Cecília Wohl (Hungarian: Polacsek Mihályné; Wohl Cecília, French: Cécile Wohl, aka Cecil Wohl; 1862, Vilnius – 5 September 1939, Budapest district 1) was a Lithuanian-Viennese master, Budapestian salonist known as "Cecil mama", a daughter of the senior teacher of Jewish history at the Vilna rabbinic seminary Osher Leyzerovich Vol, [1] and the mother of Karl Polanyi and Michael Polanyi.