Activity Listings
- Letter from Clarence F. Kiech to LP, Dr. Reuben E. Wood, and Dr. James H. Sturdivant. Encloses 3 copies of a redraft of their proposed agreement with the California Institute Research Foundation. Discusses the situation should later improvements need to be made on the subject matter of the Pauling application, Serial No. 408,116. Attached are diagrams of the oxygen meter invented by LP. LP Safe: Drawer 1, Folder 1.031
- Letter from Frank Blair Hanson, The Rockefeller Foundation to LP RE: Hanson, representing the Rockefeller Foundation, believes it would be unacceptable for C. I. T. to accept commercial funds if there are any conditions attached that would allow the developments to be controlled by commercial interests. [LP's letter to Hanson June 4, 1942] [Filed under LP Science: Rockefeller Foundation, 1936-1946: Box #14.038 Folder #38.12]
- Letter from LP to Prof. Joel Hildebrand, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, RE: Discusses Schomaker's work on the HF calculations. Notes that three and four-member rings would be fairly stable, with the four-member ring more so. Mentions that perhaps Schomaker should go up to Berkeley to discuss the calculations when finished. [Letters from Hildebrand to LP June 2, 1942, October 22, 1942] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #159.3, file:(Hildebrand, Joel)]
- Letter from LP to Professor Harry S. Owens, University of Idaho. [Letters from Owens to LP May 29, 1942, June 11, 1942] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #300.5, File: (O: Correspondence, 1942)]
June 8, 1942
Professor Harry S. Owens
University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho
Dear Professor Owens:
In answer to your question in your letter of May 29, I would say that I think it improbable that the proteins which combine with two or more different prosthetic groups to form different active enzymes do so as a result of modification of structure by the prosthetic group. I think that the same protein might well have such a structure that it has the power of combining with more than one prosthetic group. On the other hand, I think that it might well be possible under suitable circumstances for an enzyme to change its structure in such a way as to acquire new properties. We are planning some experiments now along these lines.
Sincerely yours,
Linus Pauling
LP:jr
- Writes cheque to "Coll. Int Rev. Same for AHP A40866 A38683" $4.81 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.072, folder 72.3]
- Writes cheque to "Coll. Int. Rev. Inc. Tax. Also note A40870 $25 + 40. A38688 50+80. Total 81.01 for LP" $4.81 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.072, folder 72.3]
- Writes cheque to "Collector of Internal REvenue," $4.81. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial, Box 4.016, Folder 16.2]
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