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3 unusual facts about Michael Polanyi


Dislocation

In 1934, Egon Orowan, Michael Polanyi and G. I. Taylor, almost simultaneously realized that plastic deformation could be explained in terms of the theory of dislocations.

Esther Meek

She is the author of Longing to Know (2003), in which she elaborates an epistemology based on the multiperspectivalism and presuppositionalism of John Frame and the tacit knowledge theory of Michael Polanyi.

Fiber diffraction

The corresponding geometric distortion has been extensively studied by Michael Polanyi introducing the concept of Polanyi's sphere (German: "Lagenkugel") intersecting Ewald's sphere.


Charlotte Bach

In 1968, Hajdu adopted the new role of Dr. Charlotte Bach, a supposed former lecturer at Budapest's Eötvös Loránd University, whose actual alumni included the philosophers Michael and Karl Polanyi and the mathematician John von Neumann.

G. I. Taylor

In 1934, Taylor, roughly contemporarily with Michael Polanyi and Egon Orowan, realised that the plastic deformation of ductile materials could be explained in terms of the theory of dislocations developed by Vito Volterra in 1905.


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