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Show I47 negative ones. There is no question but that my formative years as a physical chemist were shaped to a large extent by what I learned from you, second-hand. In the sense that a good bit of my work is a continuation and elaboration of some of your work in chemical kinetics, you know that I am telling the truth. I hope that I will stay young as gracefully and vigorously as you have managed to do and that I will be able to maintain the same interest in science that you have. I do believe that you are a living memorial to the good habits of your faith and it is only lack of will power that keeps me from emulating you in this respect. Beigeve me, you don't look seventy and you don't act seventy. Two of his students from Japan expressed the thought and feeling in Japan that the term chemical kinetics is synonymous with Henry Eyring. The reasons for such influence is the use of his two books, Quantum Chemistry and Theory of Rate Processes as textbooks and his memorable visits to Japan.46 The influence of Eyring went beyond the normal student-teacher relationship, for he was and is important to his students in many personal ways, directly and indirectly. An illustration of this great in- fluence is the experience of Walter Kauzmann who wrote to Eyring as follows: It is a pleasure to add to those of your many other It is former students my greetings on your 70th birthday. hard to believe that 40 years have passed since I came out from under your wing, but they have, and you must know that I you have had a strong influence throughout that period. have always been grateful for the many things you have done‘ for me - including perhaps some that I didn't deserve, but that your generous spirit offered to me. One of the most important of the indirect effects you have had on my life is the former Elizabeth Flagler, once If Frank Frank Johnson's research assistant and now my wife. experiments his with proceed to you by had not been encouraged on the effects of pressure on luminescent bacteria, Elizabeth would probably not have been in Princeton and both our lives would have been quite different. We are grateful for the role you played here even if it was possibly unintentional. You may also be pleased to know that the famous experiment |
