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Henry Eyring
Henry Eyring
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throughout the chemical community for the rest of his life. He broke new ground in a wide sweep of scientific activities, involving matters that ranger!
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Gila Academy, a church school near Pima, graduating in 1919. He did especially well in mathematics en c!
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reputation for the rest of his life. His work with Daniels resulted in the award of a National Research Council fellowship at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin from the summer of 1929 until the summer of 1930.
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at the Inclianapolis meeting of the American Chemical Society. In the audience was Professor Hugh Taylor of the Princeton University chemistry department.
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complex as an entity controlling the rates of chemical reactions with a definite mean lifetime and capable of treatment in rigorous thermodynamic and statistical mechanical terms. As is well known the paper presenting this iclea was first rejectee!
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Hugh Taylor was engages! in the successful effort of preparing pure heavy water, en c!
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In 1946 Eyring was approached by the University of Utah to explore his interest in becoming the clean of its graduate school, with the aim of building a major research activity at the university. The attraction of Salt Lake City was strong.
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a relatively liberal view of the relationship of science to the church, but in 1953 Joseph Fielding Smith, president of the Council of Twelve Apostles, began to express his opinion that the scriptures must be interpreter! as literally true on scientific matters.
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in Salt Lake City two months after a large meeting was held in Berlin to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his famous paper with Polanyi, "Uber einfache Gasreaktionen."
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The most complete account of Eyring's career, family history, and religious views will be found in Henry Ey ring Mormon Scientist by S
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Chem. 87~15~:2641-56, an issue honoring him.
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