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Show l05 Chemistry Periodicities in Chemistry and Biology (l vol.).45 He person- ally contributed six major chapters for the nineteen volumes in the two series of books. After personal contact with contributors at profes- sional meetings, Eyring would attend annual meetings of the editors to report his progress and complete any assignments that needed to be made. In October, l957, he spent two days at Palo Alto, California to attend the board of directors and editors meeting for Annual Reviews, Inc. He made two other trips in October, a nine day trip to Oakridge, The Tennessee Valley Authority and to National Carbon and a one day trip to give a special lecture, "The David French Lecture," at Pomona College in Claremont, California. In November, he was in Houston for the Helch Foundation meetings and in the early part of December, he made his fifteenth major trip of the year to lecture and consult at the Argonne National Laboratories in Chicago, General Motors in Detroit, National Carbon in Cleveland and Indiana University in Bloomington. Eyring never tired of talking about chemistry and especially the utility and implications of his reaction rate theory.46 Even with the continual extensive travel schedule, he maintained a productive and exciting research program at Utah. Eyring's research at Utah, in many respects continued the work which he had begun at Princeton, yet at the same time it opened up exciting new avenues of productive investigation. His work at Utah was as diverse and original as it was at Princeton and he made notable contributions in optical rotation theory, liquid theory, explosives and absolute rate theory (ART) in physical chemistry, mechanics and in biology. Before Eyring left Princeton, he and Frank Johnson had considered bringing their investigations on the kinetics of molecular reactions in |
