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Michael Polanyi
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 48 years ago |
Date of birth | March 11,1891 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Date of died | February 22,1976 |
Died | Northampton |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | Magda Kemeny |
Magda Elizabeth | |
Children | John Polanyi |
Job | Philosopher |
Polymath | |
Chemist | |
Economist | |
Books | Meaning |
Knowing and Being: Essays | |
The Tacit Dimension | |
The Study of Man | |
Personal Knowledge: Towards a post-critical philosophy | |
The Logic of Liberty: Reflections and Rejoinders | |
The Contempt of Freedom: The Russian Experiment and After | |
Atomic Reactions | |
Society, Economics, and Philosophy: Selected Papers | |
Science, Faith and Society | |
Siblings | Karl Polanyi |
Laura Polanyi Striker | |
Education | Eötvös Loránd University |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | |
ELTE Faculty of Science | |
Born | Budapest |
Hungary | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 435760 |
Michael Polanyi Life story
Michael Polanyi FRS was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. He argued that positivism supplies an imperfect account of knowing as no observer is perfectly impartial.