NOTES 1. Jewish father, non-Jewish
mother. See, e.g., the last paragraph of the section entitled
"I.G.
FARBENINDUSTRIE" at http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/hmark.html. 2. Son of the Hungarian Jewish
physical chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi. See also Ismerjük''oket?:
zsidó
származású
nevezetes magyarok arcképcsarnoka, by István
Reményi
Gyenes (Ex Libris, Budapest, 1997). 3. See interview in Candid
Science III: More Conversations with Famous Chemists, by Istvan
Hargittai
(Imperial College Press, London, 2003, p. 117). 4. See story by Leslie Katz
entiled "Chemist, Shoah survivor nets Wolf Prize" in The Jewish News Weekly
(formerly THE JEWISH BULLETIN) of Northern California, 30
January, 1998: http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/7905/edition_id/150/format/html/displaystory.html.