Michael Polanyi
British polymath
Michael Polanyi FRS 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 knowing. Wikipedia
Born: March 11, 1891, Budapest, Hungary
Died: February 22, 1976 (age 84 years), Northampton, United Kingdom
Children: John Polanyi
Education: Eötvös Loránd University (1917), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and ELTE Faculty of Science
Influenced: Ikujiro Nonaka, Thomas Samuel Kuhn, Friedrich Hayek, and more
Siblings: Karl Polanyi
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