The British Royal Society of Chemistry has awarded the 2016 Polanyi Medal to Professor Jim Anderson. The Polanyi Medal is awarded every two years for outstanding contributions to the field of Chemical Kinetics.   

Quoting  from the RSC website, "The Polanyi medal is named after Professor Michael Polanyi, 1891-1976, whose research helped to define the modern subject of gas kinetics and reaction dynamics. A native of Hungary, Polanyi received his PhD from Budapest University in 1917, on the subject of thermodynamics of adsorption. After working in Berlin, Polanyi emigrated to England in 1933 to become Professor of Physical Chemistry at Manchester University, a position he held until 1948 when he moved to philosophy and became Professor of Social Science, also at Manchester. In 1959 he became a Senior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. Polanyi published over 200 scientific papers between 1916-1948 on a wide range of topics: adsorption, reaction kinetics, x-ray diffraction to name a few. Polanyi's laboratory at Manchester attracted students and established scientists from all over the world. After the 2nd world war Polanyi increasingly turned his attention from science to economics and philosophy."

Please join us in congratulating Jim on this significant honor!