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Delaware Native American ancestry, Eicher was born in Dayton, Ohio. Eicher's father, Harold Ralph Eicher (1892–1968) was a sales manager and his mother, Myrtle Grace (née Wetzel) Eicher (1894–1989) was a seamstress, public school teacher, and piano
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national chemistry honorary, and a member of the research
Society of the Sigma Xi. With colleague Alec Kelley (1923–2013), he founded a Unitarian fellowship which later became the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Lafayette, Indiana. Eicher then worked on the preparation of various nitro and oximino
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Lafayette, Indiana, Eicher continued his chemistry studies, obtaining a B.S. degree in 1942. While an undergraduate, he prepared sulfamic acid, used in the preparation of various sulfa drugs at Johns Hopkins University; he collected scrap iron for the war effort. He served as laboratory
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used as lubricants, as plastics such as Teflon. He then worked on pilot plant tests for the enrichment of uranium-235. Finally, Eicher spent two years along with colleague Albert L. Myerson (1919–2004) constructing and operating a gas viscosimeter used to study uranium hexafluoride at various
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Citizens of the Year. He taught for Miami University's Institute for Learning and Retirement for many years, and was a teacher for 75 continuous years, with his first assistant teaching role in 1941 in a mineralogy class at
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Preparation of Some Cyclohexane Derivatives, and the Reaction of Alpha-halo Acids and Esters with Alkali Nitrites," PhD. Dissertation, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1952.
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On June 12, 1957, Eicher married Susan Ann Arne (1923–1983), a sociologist and legal secretary, in
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Determination of the Viscosity of Gaseous Uranium Hexafluoride by the Capillary Tube Method," Manhattan District Engineers, A3825, New York, 1945;
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temperatures and pressures, the data from which were used in the production of uranium isotopes at the large gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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Myerson, Albert L., and John H. Eicher: "The Viscosity of Uranium Hexafluoride," U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, MDDC 494, Washington, D.C., 1945;
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