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John C. Polanyi

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986

Interview

Interview with John Polanyi by Sture Forsén at the meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, 2000.

John Polanyi talks about his family background; creative environments (1:47); interdisciplinary science, and the risk of industrial support to science (6:41); interest in science policy (13:58); and the responsibilities scientists have in trying to improve the world (17:49).
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