Letter from Linus Pauling to Gunnar Bergman January 29, 1952. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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• Letter from LP To Frederick R. Eirich, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, RE: Thanks him for the information. States that shortly before his letter arrived they decided not to offer him an appointment and that Eirich’s letter confirmed their decision. [Letter from Eirich to LP January 24, 1952] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1951), #378.5]
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• Letter from LP to Mr. Gaston F. Bell RE: LP refers Mr. Bell to some literature regarding the structures of heteropoly acids, as Mr. Bell requested in his letter to LP. [Letter from Mr. Bell to LP January 22, 1952, follow up letter from Mr. Bell to LP February 4, 1952] [Filed under B: Correspondence 1952, Box #37, Folder #20]
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• Letter from Professor W. M. Latimer of the Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the University of Berkeley to LP RE: writes a recommendation for Dr. Z. Z. Hugus, a professor in inorganic chemistry with aptitude in quantum mechanics. [Letter from LP to Prof. Latimer February 5, 1952] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #212, Folder #15 (Latimer, Wendell)].
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• Memo from LP to Gunnar Bergman. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #27, Folder #12]

  To Gunnar Bergman

  From Linus Pauling

  Jan. 29, 1952

  Subject: Intermetallic compound AuPb₂

  In the Strukturbericht, vol. 3, page 612, there is a paper by H. Perlitz on alloys of gold and lead. He reports that the compound Au₂Pb has the C15 structure, with a = 7.91 A.

  He also reports that there is a cubic phase AuPb₂, with a = 16.14 A. This corresponds to about 52 gold atoms and 104 lead atoms in the unit cube. The gold atoms are about 20 percent smaller than the lead atoms; hence this is a structure of a somewhat different sort from those that we have been investigating; in this structure there are more large atoms than small atoms.

  The total number of atoms, about 156, is close to the total number for the phases that you have just been investigating, 162; but the sizes of the atoms make it unlikely that the structures are related.

  I suggest that you have Dr. Waugh make a sample of AuPb₂, by the method described in the paper, and that you prepare a powder photograph, and attempt to determine the lattice and space group, and ultimately the structure.

  Linus Pauling:W

• Note from Mrs. Rowand Edwards to Caltech RE: How to remove a stain from antique lace. Writes in the hope that someone at Caltech can suggest some methods of removing stains from lace. [Letter of response from LP to Mrs. Edwards February 1, 1952] [Filed under E: Correspondence 1952, Box #112, Folder #18]
• Notes from LP to himself on the January 1952 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education and an article by K.J. Mysels of the Department of Chemistry of the University of Southern California. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: (Manuscripts and Typescripts of Articles by Linus Pauling, 1952), Box 1952a, Folder 1952a.20]
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