Letter from Linus Pauling to Milton D. Soffer. November 27, 1954. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Letter from Allen H. Lewis to LP RE: Lewis feels his enclosed manuscript and his theory proposed there relate to the talk he heard LP give when awarded the G. N. Lewis medal in Berkeley. [LP's reply November 30, 1954] [Filed under L: Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from Harry G. Day to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.138]
• Letter from LP to Dr. A. Sandoval, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico RE: Thanking him for congratulations on Nobel Prize and declining invitation to teach as exchange professor in Mexico for the present; he might, however, like to visit Mexico in a few years. [Sandoval's reply December 6, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. A. Yoffe, Dept. of Physical Chemistry, University of Cambridge RE: Thanks for letter of congratulations on Nobel Prize. [LP Awards, Box 1954h3.23]
• Letter from LP to Dr. David Tyler RE: Thanks for letter of congratulations on Nobel Prize [Filed under T: Individual Correspondence, Box #408.11]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Elly T. Margolis, Western Section of American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association RE: Declines invitation to speak at the Association's annual meeting as he will be in India at that time. [Margolis' letter November 9, 1954] [Filed under M: Correspondence 1954, Box #256.5]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Jean Devening RE: thanks for letter of congratulations on Nobel Prize. [LP Awards, Box 1954h3.4]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Joe Caspin RE: thanks for letter of congratulations on Nobel Prize and newspaper clippings and hopes to see him during a stop in Honolulu in March; "It was surely fine that the Nobel Prize was award to me; for one thing, it has got the Star-Bulletin to write a pretty favorable article." [LP Awards, Box 1954h3.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. John H. Lovett, Vice-President of the Whiting Science Club RE: Declining (for the present time) the invitation to speak at a Club meeting. [Letter from Lovett November 5, 1954] [Filed under L: Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Leo Schubert, American University RE: Declining invitation to speak at the Feb. 1955 meeting of the Chemical Society of Washington because of world tour. [Schubert's reply December 3, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Paul C. Zamecnik RE: Thanking him for letter of congratulations on Nobel Prize, but declining invitation to stop in Boston to lecture on his way home from Stockholm, as we he will be continuing his trip around the world [Filed under Z: Individual Correspondence 1954, Box #464.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. W. S. Collens RE: thanks for letter of congratulations on Nobel Prize. [LP Awards, Box 1954h3.3]
• Letter from LP to Eugene Rabinowitch, Editor of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, RE: LP is unable to contribute materials for the January 1955 issue of the Bulletin. [Rabinowitch's letter to LP November 16, 1954] [Filed under LP Peace: Box 3.016, Folder 16.4]
• Letter from LP to Frank A. Newby, Jr., University of Kansas RE: Declining invitation to speak the 7^th annual E. C. Memorial Lecture due to his full schedule for the upcoming year. [Newby's letter November 15, 1954] [Filed under N: Correspondence 1954, Box #287.21]
• Letter from LP to Henry Allen Moe, Secretary, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation RE: LP sends evaluations of candidates Moe submitted to him, giving good recommendations to all but Dr. Nicolaides. Evaluations included. [Moe's letter to LP November 21, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder 15.2]
• Letter from LP to Herman Weizmann RE: Declines invitation to the annual Weizmann dinner in NY because of full schedule. [Getzoff's letter November 27, 1954; Wulf's letter November 15, 1954; Getzoff's reply November 30, 1954] [Filed under G Correspondence 1954, Box #140.18]
• Letter from LP to James R. Murphy of Murphy, Duiker, Smith and Burwell RE: Notification that LP and AHP have been granted passports by the State Department for their trip around the world. [LP Awards, Box 1954h2.19]
• Letter from LP to Jorge Guerra Debn RE: Replying to his letter concerning cooling the periodic table down to room temperature and thanking him for his congratulations on the Nobel Prize. [Filed under D: Correspondence 1954, Box #98.19]
• Letter from LP to Justice Owen J. Roberts, American Philosophical Society RE: Thanking Roberts for his help and notifying him that his passport has been validated. Attached: Memo from A. H. Syren to Miss Noonan concerning giving a copy of his letter to the Secretary of State to LP [LP Biographical: Box 2.003, Folder 3.4]
• Letter from LP to Lord Victor Rothschild RE: Regrets Rothschild left Pasadena before LP was able to see him again; returns Rothschild manuscript (November 15, 1954) and informs him of LP's world tour travel plans. [Notes from Rothschild 11-16, November 17, 1954] [Filed under R: Individual Correspondence, Box #336.6]
• Letter from LP to Mr. E. S. Erickson, Sweden RE: Thanks for letter of congratulation on Nobel Prize. LP regrets he will not be able to see him while in Stockholm. [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder 15.2]
• Letter from LP to Mrs. Grace Mary Coryell, c/o Prof. C. D. Coryell MIT RE: thanks for letter of congratulations on Nobel Prize. [LP Awards, Box 1954h3.3]
• Letter from LP to Peter RE: trip to Stockholm; LP's and AHP's plans for continued trip around the world. [LP Awards, Box 1954h2.4]
• Letter from LP to Prof. Bongsadadt in Thailand RE: notifying Bongsadadt that his plans to visit Thailand remain unchanged after winning the Nobel Prize and offering to lecture while there [refer to letters of January 15, 1954, April 27, 1954, May 10, 1954] [LP Awards, Box 1954h2.11]
• Letter from LP to Prof. D. L. Riesz, Laboratorio de Quimica, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay RE: Thanks for letter of congratulations on Nobel Prize. [LP Awards, Box 1954h3.17]
• Letter from LP to Prof. F. T. Wall, University of Illinois RE: Recommending Richard E. Marsh, Rafael Pasternak, Martin Karplus and Gary Felsenfeld for the position openings at U of Illinois. [Wall's letter November 23, 1954] [Filed under W: Individual Correspondence, Box #431.2]
• Letter from LP to Prof. Milton D. Soffer. [Soffer's letter November 16, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]

  27 November 1954

  Professor Milton D. Soffer

  Department of Chemistry

  Smith College

  Northampton, Massachusetts

  Dear Professor Soffer:

  I have just come to your letter of 16 November -I have been away from Pasadena on a lecture tour. This is the first news that I had had to the effect that the Voice of America was forbidden to mention the fact that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1954. I have written to Mr. Streibert, asking him to give me an authoritative statement about it.

  I thank you very much for bringing this matter to my attention.

  I may say that it occurred to me that I might say to Mr. Streibert (I did not in fact do so) that the news might be announced in an innocuous way by reading a list of recipients of the Presidential Medal for Merit, the highest award given to a citizen of the United States by the Government - the list is not very long - and mentioning incidentally, when my name appears, that the Nobel Prize had recently been awarded to me also.

  Cordially yours,

• Letter from LP to Professor S. Mizushima, Tokyo University RE: Finalizing arrangements for trip to Japan, and agreeing to lecture while there. [LP Awards, Box 1954h2.14]
• Letter from LP to Senator Wayne Morse RE: Thanks for Morse's letter of November 12, 1954; LP's passport will be validated [LP Biographical: Box 2.003, Folder 3.4]
• Letter from LP to Theodore Streibert, Director of the U.S. Information Agency RE: Writing to verify or deny the statement that the Voice of America was forbidden to mention that LP was awarded the Nobel Prize. [Streibert's Reply December 3, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from Lars Gunnar Silln of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm to LP RE: returning to the question of whether LP will lecture at a joint meeting of the Chemical Society of Stockholm and the Chemists' Club at the Royal Institute of Technology, allowing that details can be set at a later date [Reply from LP November 30, 1954]. [LP Awards, Box 1954h2.13]
• Letter from Robert R. Oppel to LP RE: autograph request [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.130]
• Magazine Article: "Pauling passport problem", America, November 27, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.83]