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Show 109 anesthesio1ogists. The resu1t of Eyring's renewed interest in abso1ute rate theory as a too1 in bio1ogy 1ed him and his former c011eague, Frank Johnson, to consider revising their 1954 book. Using the format of the 1954 book as a basis,and adding the extensive investigations of the 1970's and making necessary revisions and updating of the ear1ier work, Eyring's second book on the subject was pub1ished by John Wi1ey and Sons in 1974 under the tit1e of The Theory of Rate Processes in Bio1ogy and Medicine with Johnson and Stover as co-authors. It met with favorab1e reviews and some success as a text and is often cited in the scientific Titerature.58 The 1954 and 1974 books are monuments to the great versati1ity and power of Eyring‘s abso1ute rate theory in bio1ogy and medicine and of his thirty years of research into this important area of science. Re1ated to his work in bio1ogy was his research into the mechanica1 properties of various materia1s. In a fo110wup of his work at the Texti1e Institute at Princeton, during his first decade and a ha1f at Utah, he continued the study of the mechanica1 properties of many other fibers inc1uding such natura1 fibers as cotton, woo1, keratin and CO11agen and synthetic fibers 1ike ny1on and the p1astic saran.59 The esteem in which Eyring and his mecahnicaT modeTS of fibers were he1d by the texti1e industry is i11ustrated in the invitation he received from the Austra1ian Woo1 Texti1e Research Organization (CSIRO) to attend and Tecture at a wor1d conference of CSIRO in Austra1ia from August 22 through September 9, 1955. The meetings were he1d in three Austra1ian cities, Sydney, Gee1ong, and Me1bourne, where Eyring spoke about his investigations into the mechanica1 properties of woo1 and their significance. woo1 is Austra1ia's most important agricu1tura1 resource. |
