Linus Pauling note to self concerning research on the color of the merocyanine dyes. Page 1. December 4, 1951
Linus Pauling note to self concerning research on the color of the merocyanine dyes. December 4, 1951. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

Travel: Washington, D.C.

Activity Listings

  • Handwritten note from AHP to Crellin Pauling, RE: Talks about how they went to a beer joint with Bob Robertson the night before and tried to get something settled about Peter and Mariette. Explains that LP is getting very tired. Asks if he went on a boat trip that weekend and tells him some of their plans for the next few days. Discusses how they went to see “An American in Paris.” Asks if he will go home this weekend and says that the Hughes have moved out. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal & Family: (Family Correspondence, 1930-1995, No Date.), Box #5.048, Folder #48.3]
  • Itinerary: Protein Substitutes Group; Office of Naval Research. [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.001, Folder #1.9]
  • Letter from Edythe W. Baker, Secretary, Caltech, to C. B. Belknap, cc. LP, RE: Acknowledges receipt of his letter and tells him that copies were given to LP and Dr. R. F. Bacher. [Letter from Belknap to DuBridge, November 21, 1951, and Letter from LP to Belknap, December 13, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Owens-Illinois Glass Company), #299.7]
  • Letter from Robert F. Gould, Managing Editor, Chemical and Engineering News, to LP, RE: States that their trial listings of recent Ph.D. theses in chemistry and chemical engineering was well-received but that it must be discontinued because of space and money constraints. States that they would like to continue to make the information available in some form and asks LP to send him information on Ph.D. degrees granted by his department. [Letter from LP to Gould, December 12, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Chemical and Engineering News), #70.3]
  • Memo from LP to himself, RE: Discusses Exchange Reactions of four-Coordinated Nickel Complexes. [Filed under LP Science: (LP Notes to Self: Scientific, 1941, 1945, 1949-1992), Box #10.003, Folder #3.4]
  • Memo from LP to himself, RE: Discusses thoughts from a book about tetrakistribromophosphene Nickel. [Filed under LP Science: (LP Notes to Self: Scientific, 1941, 1945, 1949-1992), Box #10.003, Folder #3.4]
  • Memo from LP to himself, RE: States authors find case in which they contend steric inhibition of hyperconjugation in a book. [Filed under LP Science: (LP Notes to Self: Scientific, 1941, 1945, 1949-1992), Box #10.003, Folder #3.4]
  • Memo from LP to himself, RE: States in a book the authors have obtained some heats of combustion from which bond energy values can be derived. [Filed under LP Science: (LP Notes to Self: Scientific, 1941, 1945, 1949-1992), Box #10.003, Folder #3.4]
  • Memo from LP to himself. [Filed under LP Science: (LP Notes to Self: Scientific, 1941, 1945, 1949-1992), Box #10.003, Folder #3.4]
    December 4, 1951

    Memo to LP from Himself

    A Mathematical Treatment of the Color of the Merocyanine Dyes, by W. T. Simpson, J.A.C.S., 73, 5359 (195l).

    A theoretical discussion is given of resonance in these dyes. See also the preceding papers by Brucker.

  • Propositions of M. Karplus: Examination for LP and Professor Niemann. Handwritten note: “Dec. 4, Thurs, 1 PM, LP-Ch ,VS Niemann.” [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia: (CIT: Materials re: Teaching and Advising of Graduate Students by Linus Pauling, 1935-1963.), Box #1.016, Folder #16.2]