title: Michael Polanyi: Patriarch of Chemical Dynamics and Tacit Knowing.
abstract: Connecting Science and the Humanities was the title of the symposium on Michael Polanyi that took place at the Technische Universität Berlin (Technical University of Berlin) in October 2016. This essay, which appraises the scientific and philosophical contributions of Michael Polanyi, is based on the presentation given by Dr. Herschbach on this occasion. In the photograph: Polanyi in 1931.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
authors.forename: Dudley R
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3225-0648
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Herschbach
keywords: Polanyi, Michael; chemical kinetics; chemiluminescence; philosophic metaphors; transition-state theory