Word: polanyi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...station was warm: she ran across the campus to her husband's office. So it was that Dudley R. Herschbach, 54, learned he would share this year's chemistry prize with his onetime collaborator, Yuan T. Lee, 49, of the University of California, Berkeley, and with John C. Polanyi, 57, a University of Toronto chemist...
...Polanyi took a different approach. He studied chemical reactions by analyzing the faint infrared light emitted when molecules link up to form new substances, a phenomenon known as chemiluminescence. Says Polanyi: "You can see the dance of the molecules as they break up and are created." One application: the radiation can be amplified to produce a powerful new class of lasers...
...Polanyi worked independently to achieve the same end. He took a different tack, using the infrared emissions of newly formed molecules to measure the energy transfer that individual molecules undergo when in chemical reactions...
...Scientifically, our work is very complimentary," Polanyi said in a telephone interview from Toronto...
...Herschbach] lines up the molecules and he can determine what angles, and what patterns of movement they take as they dance," Polanyi said. "My methods tell you about vibration and rotation...