What was Polanyi's son's achievement?
Nobel Prize winner
Olympic gold medalist
Pulitzer Prize winner
Oscar winner
Answer
Nobel Prize winner was the achievement of Polanyi's son, John Charles Polanyi. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 with Dudley R. Herschbach and Yuan T. Lee for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes. John Polanyi's research focused on the use of lasers to study the dynamics of chemical reactions, particularly the energy transfer and bond formation processes.
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