June 14, 1938

Professor Edward Mack, Jr.

Department of Chemistry

University of North Carolina

Raleigh, North Carolina

I am writing to let you know that an unusually well trained man is looking for a teaching and research appointment in this country. This is Dr. G. C. Hampson, who is now completing his second year as a Commonwealth Fellow. Dr. Hampson is a very able man and has had very good training in several branches of structural chemistry. He has been expecting to receive a tutorial appointment at one of the Oxford Colleges but he and I have just learned that through some combination of circumstances the appointment was given to another man. I have received a letter from Sutton at Oxford in which he says that many people at Oxford feel that this was a mistake and that Hampson should have been kept on. I have talked with Hampson about the question of his future and find that he would be glad to stay in America. His training would fit him for appointment as Assistant Professor but I think that he might accept an instructorship. He is planning to leave here early in July.

Hampson was brought up near Manchester and then went to Oxford where he received the degrees of B.A. and B.Sc. in 1932 with first class honors. He then was given the degree of D. Phil. in 1934. From 1932-1934 he was Junior Research Fellow of Oriel College, from 1934 to 1936 Ramsay Memorial Fellow and from 1936 to 1938 Commonwealth Fellow. He spent the last two years here in our laboratory except for one semester at Cornell University.

His researches, carried out in association with Professor Sidgwick and Sutton and others at Oxford, have been largely on dipole moments and electron diffraction and x-ray diffraction. While here he has completed an interesting electron diffraction investigation of gas molecules and the x-ray study of some crystals with groups of seven atoms around a central atom. I have a very high opinion of his intellectual ability, and I am sure that he will be a successful research man. He has a very pleasant personality, and is cooperative and congenial. Although he has not had much experience with undergraduate instruction in America, I am sure that he would fit in well and would do a good job.

I am enclosing a list of his publications.

With best regards, I am

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling

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