John Charles Polanyi Prizes
2018

The innovative and ground-breaking work of five university researchers in Ontario has been recognized with the award of the 2018 Polanyi Prizes.

The research honoured this year includes work on new catalysts to make manufacturing cheaper and more sustainable, helping breast cancer patients beat the ill-effects of chemotherapy and radiation on the heart, and devising statistical models to evaluate teachers more accurately.

The prestigious prizes, now in their 31st year, are awarded in honour of Ontario’s Nobel Prize winner John C. Polanyi.

For more information about how the awards are administered, click the link below.

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Polanyi Prize in Chemistry
  • Dr. Christopher Caputo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair at York University
Polanyi Prize in Physics
  • Dr. Jason Hunt, Dunlap Fellow at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Polanyi Prize in Economic Science
  • Dr. Jiaying Gu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Polanyi Prize in Physiology/Medicine
  • Dr. Husam Abdel-Qadir, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto and Cardiologist at Women’s College Hospital
Polanyi Prize in Chemistry
  • Dr. Aron Broom, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa