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Polányi, PolanyI is a surname. There have been a number of prominent individuals in the Polanyi family:

Adolf Pollacsek (1820–1871) ∞ Zsófia Schlesinger
Schlesinger
Schlesinger is a German surname meaning "from Silesia" and may refer to:* Adam Schlesinger , American composer and musician* Adolf Martin Schlesinger , German founder of A.M. Schlesingers Musikhandlung...
- Mihály Polányi (til 1904 Pollacsek) ' onMouseout='HidePop("42070")' href="/topics/Dlhá_nad_Oravou">Bánhegy (Dluha)
  Dlhá nad Oravou
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  - January 10, 1905), prominent member of the bourgeoisie involved in railroads
  ∞ (1881 at Warsaw
  Warsaw
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  ) Cecília Wohl
  Cecília Wohl
  Cecília Wohl was a Lithuanian-Viennese master, Budapestian salonist known as "Cecil mama", a daughter of the Lithuanian Rabbi Alex Wohl, and a mother of the Polányi brothers.- References :...
  
  ' onMouseout='HidePop("15499")' href="/topics/Vilnius">Vilnius
  Vilnius
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  - 1939), a Lithuanian-Viennese master, Budapestian salonist, a daughter of Lithuanian Rabbi Alex Wohl
  - Laura Polanyi, later Stricker
    Stricker
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    (Striker) (1882–1957)
    ∞ Sándor Striker
  - Adolf Polányi
  - Karl (Paul von) Polanyi
    Karl Polanyi
    Karl Paul Polanyi was a Hungarian philosopher, political economist and economic anthropologist known for his opposition to traditional economic thought and his book The Great Transformation...
    
    , a Hungarian-Canadian political economist and author of the The Great Transformation
    ∞ Ilona Duczynska
    Ilona Duczyńska
    Ilona Duczynska , a Polish-Hungarian female revolutionist, translator, a wife of Karl Polanyi.- External links :*...
    
    (pl)
    - Kari Polanyi-Levitt (born 1923, Vienna), the Emerita Professor of Economics at McGill University
      McGill University
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      , Montreal
  - Zsófia Polányi
  - Michael (von) Polanyi
    Michael Polanyi
    Michael Polanyi, FRS was a Hungarian–British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and the theory of knowledge...
    
    , Hungarian chemist, philosopher of science, economist ∞ Magda Elizabeth Polanyi
    - John C(harles von). Polanyi
      John Charles Polanyi
      John Charles Polanyi, PC, CC, FRSC, O.Ont, FRS, born January 23, 1929) is a Canadian chemist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his research in chemical kinetics. Polanyi was educated at Manchester University, and did postdoctoral research at the National Research Council in Canada and...
      
      , Hungarian-German-Canadian Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
  - Pál Polányi

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