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Up for sale a RARE! "Theoretical Chemist" Henry Eyring Hand Signed 2X3 B&W 20,

1901 – December 26, 1981) was a Mexico-born United States theoretical chemist whose primary contribution was in the study

of chemical reaction rates and

intermediates. Eyring, a third-generation member of The

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), was

reared on a cattle ranch in Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua,

a Mormon colony, for the

first 11 years of his life. His father practiced plural marriage; he was

married to two daughters of Miles Park Romney, the great-grandfather of Mitt Romney. Eyring's father treated both wives with equal

respect and care and made sure to provide the children with a healthy family

environment.[1] In July 1912, the Eyrings and about 4,200 other

immigrants were driven out of Mexico by violent insurgents during the Mexican Revolution and

moved to El Paso, Texas. After

living in El Paso for approximately one year, the Eyrings relocated to Pima, Arizona, where he completed high school and

showed a special aptitude for mathematics and science. He also studied at Gila Academy in Thatcher, Arizona, now Eastern Arizona College.

One of the pillars at the front of the main building still bears his name,

along with that of his brother-in-law, Spencer W. LDS Church. By 1919, Eyring had received a state fellowship to the University of Arizona,

where he received degrees in mining engineering, metallurgy, and chemistry. He subsequently pursued and received his doctoral

degree in Chemistry from the University of California,

Berkeley in 1927 for a thesis entitled: A Comparison of

the Ionization by, and Stopping Power for, Alpha Particles of Elements and

Compounds. After a review of his dissertation, Princeton University recruited

Eyring as an instructor in 1931. He would continue his work at Princeton until

1946 When he was offered a position as dean of the graduate school at the University of Utah. The

chemistry building on the University of Utah campus is now named in his honor. A

prolific writer, he authored more than 600 scientific articles, ten scientific

books, and a few books on the subject of science and religion. He received

the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in

1980 and the National Medal of Science in

1966 for developing the Absolute Rate Theory or Transition state theory of

chemical reactions, one of the most important developments of 20th-century

chemistry. Several other chemists later received the Nobel Prize for work based on it, and his failure to

receive the Nobel was a matter of surprise to many. The Nobel Prize

organization admitted that "Strangely, Eyring never received a Nobel

Prize"; the Royal Swedish Academy of

Sciences apparently did not understand Eyring's theory until it

was too late to award him the Nobel. The academy awarded him the Berzelius

Medal in 1977 as partial compensation. Sterling M. McMurrin believed

Eyring should have received the Nobel Prize but was not awarded it because of

his religion. Eyring was elected president of the American Chemical Society in

1963 and the Association for the Advancement of Science in 1965. 

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