Hitchcock LECTURE SERIES

Photochemistry in an Ordered Universe

Using Light as a Scalpel, and a Crystal as Operating Table

John Polanyi, University Professor and Professor of Chemistry, University of Toronto

October 13, 1994

About John Polanyi

John Polanyi is a Canadian chemist and the 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry. He won the prize jointly with Yuan T. Lee and Dudley R. Herschbach "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes." His research focuses on chemical kinetics; studying the development of the infrared chemiluminescence technique. He currently serves as University Professor at the University of Toronto.