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Show 93 Corporation, on the oxidation of carbon. Union Carbide retained Eyring as a special consultant and lecturer for over twenty-five years. In l970, they established the George Oliver Curme Lectures in honor of a past chairman of the board and asked Eyring to deliver the first lecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Since that time he has delivered thirty-three of the thirty-five Curme Lectures.23 Eyring has given more private consulting time to Union Carbide than to any other firm. After twelve days in Utah, Eyring left again, this time for Europe. After flying to Los Angeles, he flew over the north pole to Copenhagen, then on to Brussels where he gave the State Department and officials at the World's Fair a first hand report on the progress of the molecules exhibit. He stayed in Brussels only one night, then flew back to the United States via Washington, D.C. Here he lectured at George Washington University, then spent several days at Oakridge, Tennessee, consulting for the U.S. Army. advisory committee. He was a member of a special U.S. Army Science When the winter term ended in mid-March, Eyring left again for a week in the east. First he went to Cleveland to consult with National Carbon, then to lecture at Yale University, then to attend the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society in Buffalo, and on to Washington, D.C. for more advisory committee meetings. Eyring's fourth trip outside of Utah came in April, this time for fourteen days. He first consulted with chemists at the Houdry Corpora- tion in Philadelphia on the chemistry of gasoline. in catalysts for gasoline. chusetts colleges: Holyoke. lectures. Houdry was interested He then went north to lecture at four Massa- Amherst, Massachusetts, Smith College, and Mt. From Massachusetts it was west to Purdue University for more Purdue, deeply impressed by this visit and others before, |
