- Carl F. Eyring
Carl F. Eyring (1889-1951) was a noted accoustical physicist. He served for nearly 30 years as dean of
Brigham Young University 's College of Arts and Sciences.Eyring was born in city-state|Colonia Juárez|Chihuahua,
Mexico .Eyring was also a leader in
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He served as the first president of the New England Mission from 1937-1939. ["Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint History" p. 114] While President of the New England mission Eyring exerted efforts to keep Latter-day Saint students atHarvard University ,MIT and other Boston area institutions of higher learning active in the church. ["Conference Report", April 1938, p. 62]Eyring was the uncle of the noted physicist
Henry Eyring . Carl Eyring was married to Fern Chipman. She was the sister of Lorena Chipman, who was the wife ofHarvey Fletcher . [ [http://www.signaturebookslibrary.org/harmony/chapter7.htm#eyring Kimball, Edward L. "Harvey Fletcher and Henry Eyring: Men of Faith and Science"] ]From 1924 until 1951, except for his time as missiom president, Eyring served as the dean of the college of Arts and Sciences at
Brigham Young University .Eyring was a popular professor, in the words of a BYU student of the time,
Spencer W. Kimball he was "The swellest professor on the whole faculty". [Kimball, Edward L. and Andrew E. Kimball Jr., "Spencer W. Kimball", (Salt Lake City:Bookcraft , 1977) p. 88] However since this is a quote from a letter Spencer wrote to Eyring's niece Camilla it may not represent the views of a large portion of the students.Eyring personally supervised the building of a new science building on BYU campus in the late 1940. When the cement was laid for the Eyring Science Center, Eyring sprayed it with a special house to help it cure better. It is said that this cement never cracked. Eyring died shortly after the building was dedicated from cancer which had afflicted him for many years. In 1954 it was renamed the
Carl F. Eyring Science Center in his honor.Among those who studied under Eyring was
Loren C. Dunn .Notes
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LDS Church News ", April 14th, 1998
*http://speeches.byu.edu/htmlfiles/MJBatemanF99.html
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