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Show 63 asked to participate in numerous conferences and symposiums on reaction rates, liquid theory, and quantum mechanics applied to chemistry and physics. In early 1937, he was invited by the Faraday Society and British Association to come to England to participate in a special symposium on reaction rates scheduled for mid-September. The Rocke- feller Foundation20 took care of his expenses for a four month stay at Manchester where his friend Michael Polanyi was located and this facilitated visits with chemists at Oxford, Cambridge, London, Bristol as well as Manchester. The Foundation granted the $l,lOO required for travel and Princeton University gave him a leave with pay. Eyring left for England in early September; he and his family remained in the British Isles until late December. experience. He was delighted with the four month He lectured and consulted at all of the Universities that requested him and renewed his acquaintance and friendship with Professor Michael Polanyi. Eyring's crowded consulting and lecturing schedule did not leave any time for him to write papers or undertake any research while he was in England. That four-month trip, as it turned out, was the closest thing to a sabbatical leave that Eyring would take in his entire professional career. At the end of that period, he was ready to return to active re- search and teaching at Princeton. when Eyring returned from England he continued his vigorous research, applying his absolute rate theory to chemiluminescence, protein reactions, the problem of overvoltage, the effect of solvents on reactions, reactions in solids, the effect of pressure on reactions, surface reactions and numerous other rate processes. Concurrently, he continued to develop his liquid theory model and to give explanations |
