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Show Eyring To Speak In Thurs. Series Dr. Henry Eyring, University distinguished dis-tinguished professor of chemistry and professor of metallurgy and metallurgical engineering, will speak Thursday, Oct. 19, 12:05 p.m. on "The Sensitivity and Reliability of the Senses." The lecture in Orson Spencer Hall Auditorium is the third in the University's Thursday Lecture Series. Ser-ies. "The human nose can distinguish some 15,000 components," Dr. Eyring Eyr-ing says. He will discuss this phenomenon, phen-omenon, the sensitivity of the nose, from the point of view of a molecule mole-cule man. And since "all senses act the same," his intensive explanation ex-planation of the nose will relate to all the senses. How Is Nose Like Piano? Dr. Eyring describes the nose as a piano-like machine, a salt water channel with a membrane around it. The nerve endings in the nose are "similar to keys on a piano, and a molecule is like a player. Each molecule plays a different tune on your nose," he reveals. Dr. Eyring has been a member of the University faculty since 1946. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees de-grees from the University of Arizona Ari-zona in 1923 and 1924. He earned his doctorate degree from the University Uni-versity of California in 1927. Receives Honors Dr. Eyring has received honorary degress from many colleges and universities including: the University Univers-ity of Utah, Northwestern University, Univers-ity, Princeton University, Seoul National Na-tional University, Indiana Central College, Brigham Young University, University of California at Davis and Western Reserve University. The Thursday Lecture Series is presented by the College of Letters and Science and the General Education Edu-cation Program. At DR. HENRY EYRING . . . will speak today |