Henry Eyring “Chemist” Signed Inside Book National Academy of Science Vol. 51 for Sale

Henry Eyring “Chemist” Signed Inside Book National Academy of Science Vol. 51 For Sale

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Henry Eyring “Chemist” Signed Inside Book National Academy of Science Vol. 51:
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Henry Eyring "Chemist" SIGNED & Dated

May 22, 1980

National Academy of Sciences

of the United States of America,

Biographical Memoirs,

Vol. 51

Washington, D.C. 1980

Hardcover, 418 pages, 6” x 9”

PREFACE

ABRAHAM ADRIAN ALBERT

BY IRVING KAPLANSKY

LEONARD CARMICHAEL

BY CARL PFAFFMANN

LEMUEL ROSCOE CLEVELAND

BY WILLIAM TRAGER

LESTER REYNOLD DRAGSTEDT

BY OWEN H. WANGENSTEEN AND SARAH D. WANGENSTEEN

ALBERT EINSTEIN

BY JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER

WILLIAM MAURICE EWING

BY EDWARD C. BULLARD

ALFRED IRVING HALLOWELL

BY ANTHONY F. C. WALLACE

HERBERT SPENCER HARNED

BY JULIAN M. STURTEVANT

WALTER ABRAHAM JACOBS

BY ROBERT C. ELDERFIELD

ROBERT KHO-SENG LIM

BY HORACE W. DAVENPORT

ALFRED LEE LOOMIS

BY LUIS W. ALVAREZ

HOWARD PERCY ROBERTSON

BY JESSE L. GREENSTEIN

ERNEST HARRY VESTINE

BY SCOTT E. FORBUSH

WILLIAM BARRY WOOD, JR.

BY JAMES G. HIRSCH

Henry Eyring (chemist)

Henry Eyring (February 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 developed the Absolute Rate Theory or Transition state theory of chemical reactions, connecting the fields of chemistry and physics through atomic theory, quantum theory, and statistical mechanics.

Henry Eyring

Henry Eyring in 1951

Born February 20, 1901

Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico

Died December 26, 1981 (aged 80)

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Nationality American

Alma mater University of Arizona

University of California, Berkeley

Known for Transition state theory

Spouse(s)

Mildred Bennion; Winifred Brennan

Children

3, including Henry B. Eyring

Awards

Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1980)

Priestley Medal (1975)

Elliott Cresson Medal (1969)

Irving Langmuir Award (1968)

National Medal of Science (1966)

Peter Debye Award (1964)

William H. Nichols Medal (1951)

Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1932)

Scientific University

University of Utah

Doctoral students

Keith J. Laidler

J O Hirschfelder

Walter Kauzmann

John Calvin Giddings

Other notable students

John L. Magee

History

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, Edward Christian Eyring, practiced plural marriage; Edward married Caroline Romney (1893) and her sister Emma Romney (1903), both daughters of Miles Park Romney, the great-grandfather of Mitt Romney.

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 sister Camilla's husband, Spencer W. Kimball, later president of the LDS Church.

Eyring earned a BS in mining engineering at the University of Arizona by working in a copper mine. He then received a fellowship from the US Bureau of Mines fellowship and earned his M.Sc. in metallurgy. Having seen the high rates of accidents in the mines, and breathed sulfur fumes from blast furnaces at a smelter, he chose to do his Ph.D. in chemistry. He pursued and received his doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1927 for a thesis on A Comparison of the Ionization by, and Stopping Power for, Alpha Particles of Elements and Compounds.

Princeton University recruited Eyring as an instructor in 1931. He would continue his work at Princeton until 1946. In 1946 he was offered a position as dean of the graduate school at the University of Utah, with professorships in chemistry and metallurgy. The chemistry building on the University of Utah campus is now named in his honor.

A prolific writer, Eyring 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 the Absolute Rate Theory, 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.

Awards

AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1932)

Bingham Medal (1949) of the Society of Rheology

Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry (1964)

National Medal of Science (1966)

Irving Langmuir Award (1967)

Linus Pauling Award (1969)

Elliott Cresson Medal (1969) from the Franklin Institute

Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1974)[15]

T. W. Richards Medal (1975)

Priestley Medal (1975)