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Show Eyring awarded . . .again Dr Henry Eyring, University distinguished professor of chemistry and professor of metallurgy and metallurgical engineering, has been elected to membership in the International Academy of Quantum Chemistry. Based in Menton, France, the academy is a small group of world-famous scientists devoted to furthering the development of quantum chemistry through the exchange of information and the periodic awarding of a prize to a VOUng scientist who has done important research within the field. The 22-member organization has three Nobel Prize winners, including Drs. Robert S. Mulliken md Linus C. Pauling of the United States. Professor Eyring has received numerous honors during his distinguished scientific career. He is a past president of the American j Association for the Advancement of Science and won that J organization's annual prize in 1932; he has served as president of the American Chemical Society and earned that group's Peter Debye Award and William H. Nichols Medal (New York Section); and he was formerly vice president of the Society of Rheology, receiving that body's Second Bingham Medal in 1949. Sine institutions of higher learning have awarded him honorary degrees. In 1967, President Lyndon Baines Johnson conferred upon Dr. Eyring the National Medal of Science the highest honor the President of the United States can award to scientists. The Utah educator was cited for his "contributions to our understanding of the structure and properties of matter, especially for to creation of absolute rate theory, one of the sharpest tools in the study of rates of chemical reaction." Professor Eyring joined the University faculty in 1946 as dean of the Graduate School - a post rtich he held until returning to rail-time teaching in 1965. |
