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Polanyi, Mihály (Michael)

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Mihály (Michael) Polanyi (∗ March 12th, 1891 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; † February 22nd, 1976 in Manchester, UK) was a physicist, chemicist and philosopher.

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  • Bruhns O (2019) The history of plasticity. In: Bruhns O (ed) Encyclopedy of continuum mechanics. Springer, Cham

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  1. Institut für Mechanik, Fakultät für Maschinenbau, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

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Altenbach, H., Bruhns, O.T. (2019). Polanyi, Mihály (Michael). In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_312-1

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