NSERC president Suzanne Fortier, FCIC, has announced that Nobel Laureate John C. Polanyi, HFCIC, is the winner of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering.(Recognition/reconnaissance)

Canadian Chemical News, April, 2008

NSERC president Suzanne Fortier, FCIC, has announced that Nobel Laureate John C. Polanyi, HFCIC, is the winner of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. Polanyi is a professor of chemistry at the University of Toronto. He has spent his pioneering career investigating molecular motions in chemical reactions.

In 1986, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work uncovering the movements of molecules in chemical reactions. Most recently, he has used scanning tunneling microscopes to characterize the reactions of individual molecules and thus fabricate molecular structures that are less than a thousandth the width of a human hair.