Activity Listings
- Letter from Barry Smith, General Director, The Commonwealth Fund, to LP RE: Informs him that they have decided not to approve Dr. Paul A. Giguere's request for a grant, as the award is intended for research of educational or scientific purposes, not related to the British war effort. Encloses application information in case of future need. [Letters from Wickman to LP June 20, 1941, from Giguere to LP September 7, 1941] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #136.9, file:(Giguere, Paul A.)]
- Letter from J. Vernon Harvey to LP RE: Reports that he has been accepted to Cal Tech to do graduate work in chemistry. Requests permission to work under LP on a problem related to quantum mechanics. Goes on to describe his plans for his course of study. (Note in right margin: Ansd”) [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #165.6, file:(H: Correspondence, 1941)]
- Letter from Norma S. Thompson, Secretary, The Rockefeller Foundation to Dr. R. A. Millikan, cc: LP RE: Informing C.I.T. that the Rockefeller Foundation has appropriated $40,000 for the support of developments of chemistry in its relationship to biological problems during the year July 1, 1941 to June 30, 1942.
[Filed under LP Science: Rockefeller Foundation, 1936-1946: Box #14.038 Folder #38.11]
- Letter from Reuben E. Wood, to Dr. Melvin Calvin, University of California. RE: Is shipping the oxygen meter today. Recommends that he have two instruments, with different sensitivities. Informs him that they are not set up to conveniently fun temperature effect tests. [Filed under LP Science: Scientific War Work - Materials re: the Pauling Oxygen Meter, 1940-1947: Box #13.001 Folder #1.2]
- Letter from Reuben E. Wood, to Dr. T. K. Sherwood, National Defense Research Committee. RE: Informs him of revisions to the disposal of instruments. [Filed under LP Science: Scientific War Work - Materials re: the Pauling Oxygen Meter, 1940-1947: Box #13.001 Folder #1.2]
- Note from Toshio Takanine to LP RE: Thanks LP for meeting with him and discussing absorption experiments. Mentions he is in Honolulu and will then travel to Yokohama. [Notes from Toshio Takanine April 3, 1941, April 21, 1941] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #410.6]
- Record of LP's diet while ill with nephritis. Breakfast: ½ honeydew melon, pancakes, 1 sq butter, 6 T cream, 4 T syrup, 2 c coffee, 1 c orange juice, 3 chocolate mints / Lunch: 1 baked potato, 1 sq butter, 1 c milk, 1 c tomato gelatin salad, 1 banana, 1/4 c cream, 1 chocolate bar / Dinner: 1 c milk, 1 cube cheese, 1 water biscuit, ½ sq butter, 1 c water melon, coca-cola, 2 chocolate mints, 1 banana [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #3.1, file:(Record of LP's diet while ill with nephritis kept by Ava Helen Pauling, 1941-1942.)]
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