__NOTOC__ Polányi, Polanyi is a surname. There have been a number of prominent individuals in the Polanyi family, illustrated in the following family tree: *Adolf Pollacsek (1820–1871)

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(married to) Zsófia Schlesinger **Mihály Pollacsek (March 21, 1848, Dluha (Dlhá nad Oravou) – January 10, 1905, Budapest), prominent member of the bourgeoisie involved in railroads
⚭ (1881 in

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) Cecília Wohl (, ; 1862,

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– 1939,

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), daughter of Lithuanian Rabbi Alex Wohl, held a literary salon in Budapest ***Laura Polanyi, later Striker (1882–1957), ⚭ Sándor Striker **** Eva Striker Zeisel, American industrial designer ***Adolf Polányi ***

Karl Paul Polanyi Karl Paul Polanyi (; ; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964)''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. 2003) vol 9. p. 554 was an Austro-Hungarian economic anthropologist, economic sociologist, and politician, best kno ...

(, 1886, Vienna – 1964, Pickering, Ontario), a Hungarian-Canadian political economist and author of '' The Great Transformation''
⚭ Ilona Duczyńska ****

Kari Polanyi Levitt Kari Polanyi Levitt (born June 14, 1923)''Biography'' (Kari Polanyi Levitt website. http://www.karipolanyilevitt.com/biography/.) is an Austrian-born Canadian economist, currently Emerita Professor of Economics at McGill University, Montreal. Sh ...

(born 1923, Vienna), the Emerita Professor of Economics at

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***Sophia (Zsófia) Polányi ***

Michael Polanyi Michael Polanyi ( ; ; 11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. He argued that positivism is a false account of knowle ...

(; 1891, Budapest – 1976, Manchester), Hungarian chemist, philosopher of science, economist
⚭ Magda Elizabeth Polanyi ****

John Charles Polanyi John Charles Polanyi (; born 23 January 1929) is a German-born Canadian chemist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in chemical kinetics. Polanyi was born into the prominent Hungarian Polányi (Pollacsek) fami ...

(; born 1929, Berlin), Canadian Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry ***Paul (Pál) Polányi **Lujza Pollacsek ***

Ervin Szabó Ervin Szabó (; born as Samuel Armin Schlesinger; 23 August 1877 – 29 September 1918) was a Hungarian social scientist, librarian and anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary. Life Born Ármin Sámuel Schlesinger in Szlanica, Kingdom of Hungary, Au ...

(1877–1918)About Ervin Szabó
/ref> **Vilma Pollacsek *** Irma Seidler, early love of

György Lukács György Lukács (born Bernát György Löwinger; ; ; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and Aesthetics, aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an inter ...

*** Ernő Seidler, founding member of the

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Michael Polanyi Center The Michael Polanyi Center (MPC) at Baylor University, Texas, was the first center at a research university exclusively dedicated to the principle of intelligent design, primarily to host William Dembski, its director, and Bruce L. Gordon, its ...

(MPC), Baylor University * The Eyring-Polanyi equation *

Bell–Evans–Polanyi principle In physical chemistry, the Evans–Polanyi principle (also referred to as the Bell–Evans–Polanyi principle, Brønsted–Evans–Polanyi principle, or Evans–Polanyi–Semenov principle) observes that the difference in activation energy between ...

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