Carl F. Eyring was born 30 August 1889 in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico to Henry Carlos Ferdinand Eyring (1835-1902) and Deseret Fawcett (1852-1926) and died 4 January 1951 of unspecified causes. He married Bessie Fern Chipman (1890-1981) 9 September 1914 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah.
Biography
Carl Ferdinand Eyring (August 30, 1889–January 3, 1951) was an acoustic physicist. He served for nearly 30 years as dean of Brigham Young University's College of Arts and Sciences. Eyring was born in Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico to Henry Eyring and Deseret Fawcett.
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. While president of the New England mission Eyring exerted efforts to keep Latter-day Saint students at Harvard University, MIT and other Boston area institutions of higher learning active in the church.
Eyring was the uncle of the noted chemist Henry Eyring, who was father of President Henry B. Eyring of the First Presidency of the LDS Church. Carl Eyring was married to Fern Chipman, a daughter of Stephen L. Chipman. She was the sister of Lorena Chipman, who was the wife of Harvey Fletcher.
From 1924 until 1951, except for his time as mission 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". However since this is a quote from a letter Spencer wrote to Eyring's niece Camilla (who Kimball would soon marry) 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 1940s. When the cement was laid for the Eyring Science Center, Eyring sprayed it with a special house[clarification needed] to help it cure better. It is said that this cement never cracked. Shortly after the building was dedicated, Eyring died from cancer which had afflicted him for many years. In 1954 it was renamed the Carl F. Eyring Science Center in his honor.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Robert Chipman Eyring (1924-2001) | |||
| Elaine Eyring (1927-2006) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Henry Elias Eyring (1862-1904) | |||
| Mary Louise Eyring (1863-1944) | |||
| Bertha Clara Eyring (1865-1866) | |||
| Edward Christian Eyring (1868-1957) | 27 May 1868 St George, Washington County, Utah, United States | 13 April 1957 Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States | Caroline Cottam Romney (1874-1954) Emma Romney (1884-1957) |
| Emily Henrietta Eyring (1870-1947) | 18 April 1870 St George, Washington County, Utah | 18 May 1947 Logan, Cache County, Utah | William Spencer Snow (1867-1892) Miles Park Romney (1843-1904) |
| Ida Elizabeth Eyring (1874-1952) | |||
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| George Albert Eyring (1873-1873) | |||
| Clara Virginia Eyring (1875-1876) | |||
| Anna Margaret Eyring (1877-1950) | |||
| Jonathan Elias Eyring (1880-1880) | |||
| Wilford Woodruff Eyring (1881-1882) | |||
| Andrew Theodore Eyring (1884-1964) | |||
| Carl Ferdinand Eyring (1889-1951) | 30 August 1889 Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico | 4 January 1951 | Bessie Fern Chipman (1890-1981) |
| Fernanda Caroline Eyring (1891-1960) | |||
References
- Biography - Wikipedia