NSERC creates award in honor of John Polanyi

Guest Contributor
October 24, 2005

Sciences and Engineering Research Canada (NSERC) has established a $250,000 research prize in honour of Dr John Polanyi, a chemistry professor at the Univ of Toronto and the 1986 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry. A competition for the new prize has already been launched with a March 1/06 deadline for nominations (www.nserc.gc.ca/polanyi/e). The inaugural NSERC John C Polanyi Award will be given to a researcher or research team who has achieved an outstanding advance in any field of the natural sciences or engineering. The new prize marks the third NSERC has created to honour Canada’s Nobel Prize-winning researchers. In past years, NSERC has created the Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering and the Michael Smith Awards for Science Promotion....


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