Henry Eyring
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About
Chemist whose studies of reaction rates and intermediates broke ground in matters both eminently practical and highly theoretical. He won the National Medal of Science in 1966 and was the one-time president of the American Chemical Society.
Before Fame
He studied mining and engineering at the University of Arizona, and then chemistry at Berkeley.
Trivia
He authored more than 600 scientific articles and ten books during his academic career, and as a devout Mormon tried to bridge the gap between religion and science.
Family Life
He was born on a Mormon colony in Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, and moved back to the U.S. after the Mexican Revolution drove the colonists out.
Associated With
George Romney, father of Mitt, was also born in Mexico, where many Mormons moved to after Congress outlawed polygamy.
