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Show l35 various sections, Eyring has received a number of awards and honors from other American scientific societies and educational institutions. Note- worthy are honorary membership in the Chemists' Club of New York, the Franklin Institute's Elliot Cresson Gold Medal, the Dickinson College Joseph Priestley Celebration Award, the Presidency of the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, the National Medal of Science, and over a dozen honorary doctorates from major universities in the country. One of the most interesting honors came in 1964 when Eyring was unanimously elected an honorary member of the Chemists' Club of New York. The citation presented to him at a special assembly in his honor was sixty-three feet long. The handpainted document, entitled "Henry Eyring's Beanstalk" begins with his birth in l90l and sixty leaves on the lengthy stalk detail the major accomplishments of his life.17 Eyring became the thirty-second chemist and the twenty-fourth American to be so honored and he joined the ranks of such distinguished honorary members as Peter Debeye, Irving Langmuir, Glenn T. Seaborg, Hugh Stott Taylor and Neils H. Bohr.18 Eyring has, on occasion, taken the beauti- fully drawn scroll out to show inquiring friends and students. In l959, Eyring was given one of America's oldest medals, the Frank- lin Institute's Elliot Cresson Medal "for his contributions to our basic understanding of the mechanisms controlling the rates of chemical and physical reactions through his quantum mechanical calculations of activation energies, his absolute reaction rates, and his theory of liquids."19 In l974, he was recipient of the Joseph Priestley Celebration Award from Dickinson College. In addition to a ceramic Priestley Medallion struck from original molds of Josiah Wedgewood, the award |
