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Show CHAPTER III THE PRINCETON YEARS The one year appointment at Princeton turned into fifteen exciting years for Eyring. The atmosphere at Princeton was similar to that at Berkeley, but Eyring's role had now changed. He was no longer the stu- dent under the tutelage of the teacher, but now he was the teacher, as well as director of students' research. The emphasis at Princeton was on research, and Eyring had a light teaching load for all of those years. He taught only advanced physical chemistry courses and spent the rest of his time doing research in the newly completed Henry C. Frick Laboratory. This building was his center of scientific activity during his stay at Princeton. It contained an office and private lab- oratory for each professor, laboratories for advanced research, labor- atories for instruction, classrooms and a large auditorium. The second floor housed an extensive library and an excellent collection of the world's important chemical journals. In addition, the building also had a glass-blowing room, a well equipped machine shop, and numerous service rooms.1 Eyring's first paper at Princeton, "The Resultant Electric Moment of Complex Molecules," in early 1932, gave the equation for the addition of dipoles in complex molecules, as well as the distance between the two ends of long molecules. The equation has remained basic in high polymer theory and is still frequently cited.2 The next series of papers dealt |
