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TORONTO (CUP) — A Uni- versity of Toronto professor has won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, for his pioneering research on molecular reactions.

John Polanyi shared the award with two American professors. He becomes the third Canadian to be distin- guished with the award.

Ironically, Polanyi’s research has been used for laser technology that will likely be used for the U.S. Strategic Defence Initiative, to which the quiet, modest Polanyi is vehemently opposed.

“Yes, it is ironic,” Polanyi told an Oct. 15 news conference held at U of T just two hours after he received notice of the award. ‘And I don’t blanch if you say that there seems to bea contradiction. But basic research has always been. used for many, applications, some good, some ill.”

Polanyi explained that he and his researchers had explored the ways in which molecules vibrate and collide and found a certain reaction

which created “highly vibra- tion-excited molecules.’’ His discoveries led directly to the development of the first vibra- tional laser in 1964, and the first chemical laser in 1965.

The vibrational laser has been used to produce the first intrument proposed in the development of SDI.

Polanyi called Star Wars “a harebrained application” of his research, but maintains that for every such application, there are twenty benefical ones.

“Just the morning I gota call from a young woman whose eye-sight has been restored through an operation with a laser,” said Polanyi. ‘She was calling to thank me.”

Other beneficial uses for the vibrational laser include micro- circuity (making marks on microchips), repairing leaking blood vessels, freeing up clogged arteries, and stapling detached retinas. The laser has also been used by tailors for cutting cloth, and in the auto industry for: welding.

Polanyi feels we should avoid the “‘obsessive fear of the

by-products of technology”, and that the nuclear threat can

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