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Show 94 made an attempt to bring Eyring there permanently. They offered him a one course per semester teaching load, a salary of $16,000 and complete charge of research in physical chemistry.24 $12,000 at Utah. At the time he was making He had received offers before, including one from Harvard in T951 to spend a year there and numerous offers from BYU, but the challenge at the University of Utah was to keep Eyring for the remainder of his career.25 From Lafayette, he went on to Cleveland for a visit with National Carbon and from there to East Lansing, Michigan for a special symposium on creativity at Michigan State University. The purpose of the symposium was to view creativity from an interdisciplinary point of view. Edmund w. Sinnott, Emeritus Dean from Yale University and prominent biologist, was invited to speak about creativity from a biological sciences' point of view. Erich Fromm, world famous psychologist from the University of Mexico, addressed the subject from the social sciences' point of view, and Eyring was invited to present the natural sciences' point of view. Eyring's views on scientific creativity are instructive not only for those interested in the phenomenon of creativity, but because they give insight into Eyring's own creative genius. For him, everyone is born l'into an environment with a language and culture that provide a more or less complete world view."26 The con- flicts one has can usually be resolved with a deeper understanding of that view, but when inconsistencies appear that cannot be resolved then the state is set for the creative process. With such questions, partic- ularly in science, one looks for the reoccurrence of certain events for "only those aspects of a situation which recur can give us useful insight." Such a view leads to the idea of variables which can lead to |
