First name

LeRoy

Last name

Eyring

Academic unit

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Status

Deceased

Type of professor

Regents Professor

Year

1988

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Bio summary

Eyring was recruited to ASU in 1961 as the chairman of the then Chemistry Department, where he founded the LeRoy Eyring Center for Solid State Science. Eyring is recognized as the authority on rare earth oxides, a collection of chemical elements, including scandium, yttrium and lanthanide series, materials now used in metallurgy, electronics, ceramics, lasers and more.