Activity Listings
- Contract Status Report: Contract N6onr-24423, Chemistry 25, Acct. 23607, Directors of Research: LP and Dr. Verner Schomaker, March 31, 1955. [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1962), Box #14.031, Folder #31.7]
- Itinerary: Berkeley Lecture 7-9:30 ? [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder 2.1]
- Letter from Dr. Gerald Laxer, Director of Science and Technology, Wool Bureau, Inc., to Robert B. Corey, Gates and Crellin Laboratories, Caltech, RE: Describes the research being performed by the Wool Bureau. Will be traveling to Australia this summer to attend the International Wool Textile Research Conference. Will be in Los Angeles on August 1. Wonders whether he may visit Corey and LP on that date to discuss research problems of mutual interest and gain some idea of the facilities at Caltech. Looks forward to the presentation of Corey's papers in Australia. [Letter from Corey to Laxer April 4, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1955-1960), #231.1]
- Letter from J.D. Haseman to LP RE: Has read LP's article on the Stochastic Method and Structure of Proteins in the April issue of the American Scientist. Wonders if LP knows of any way in which to prepare the activated and spent samples so as to obtain adequate spectra. Wonders if LP knows of a better way than using infra-red absorption. [Letter from LP to Haseman April 5, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1950-1955), #166.6]
- Letter from LP [Signed by Beatrice Wulf] to Alice Mary Hilton, Foothill Roosevelt Democratic Club, RE: Regrets that he is unable to accept the invitation to speak before the Foothill Roosevelt Democratic Club on April 26, as he will be on a trip east during that time. [Letter from Hilton to LP March 25, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1950-1955), #166.6]
- Letter from LP to Bernard M. Goldstein RE: Has not written down his speech regarding the dangers of hydrogen bomb fallout. The speech was based in part upon articles written by Professor A. H. Sturtevant. Encloses one of the articles. In a postscript, suggests that Goldstein might be interested in subscribing to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. [Letter from Goldstein to LP March 21, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1936-1956)), #140.19]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Berhard Schmidt, Weizmann Institute of Science, RE: Sorry to hear that Schmidt will not be coming to work at Caltech. Would like to know whether Schmidt plans to come to Caltech for the 1956-1957 year. Informs that AHP's spectacles arrived safely in India and Professor Sir S. S. Bhatnaghar passed away the day before they reached India. Describes visits to India, Japan, and Thailand. Hopes to see Schmidt and his wife in England sometime in the coming year. [Letter from Schmidt to LP February 19, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Organizational Correspondence. (Wa - Wo)), #441.4]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, University of Texas, Medical Branch, RE: Has returned home from their three months of travel. Thanks Leake for his invitation to visit. Will not be able to do so in the near future, as he has already spent so much time away from Pasadena. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Individual Correspondence. (Lauritson - LeCompte)), #214.4]
- Letter from LP to Dr. D.P. Mellor, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, RE: Found Mellor's letter and a letter from the New South Wales University of Technology. Has written the reference as requested. [Letter from LP to Bourke March 31, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Individual Correspondence. (Mead - Miller)), #246.7]
- Letter from LP to Dr. George W. Corner, Embryology Dept., Carnegie Institution of Washington, RE: Agrees to serve as a consultant to Dr. Caroline F. Ware in the preparation of her volume of "History of the Scientific and Cultural Development of Mankind." Sends a copy of this letter to Ware. [Letter from Corner to LP January 7, 1955, Letter from Ware to LP April 8, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1953-1959), #444.3]
- Letter from LP to Dr. M.L. Huggins, Research Laboratories, Eastman Kodak Company, RE: Thanks Huggins for writing such a fine statement. Pleased that Huggins was chosen to discuss LP's work. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Individual Correspondence. (Hoffman - Huggins)), #162.14]
- Letter from LP to Dr. R.S. Schreiber, Director of Research, The Upjohn Company, RE: Thanks Schreiber for the letter and the honorarium. Did not incur any significant additional expenses on his trip to Kalamazoo. Enjoyed his visit with Schreiber. [Letter from Wulf to Schreiber January 24, 1955] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.14]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Waldo E. Cohn, Oak Ridge National Laboratory RE: Informs him that the letter describing the difficult circumstances of the conference invitation never reached LP in India. It must have been in the mail plane which crashed before reaching New Delhi. Plans to leave for an eastern trip on April 10. Has so much to do getting ready for the trip that he could not move the departure date up to allow him to attend the conference. [Letter from Cohn to LP March 27, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1921-1957), #74.23]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Wallace W. Atwood, Jr., National Academy of Sciences, RE: Thinks that the National Institute of Sciences of India, New Delhi, is the Indian organization that is the counterpart to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. Describes this institute and three other Indian science institutes. [Letters from Atwood to LP March 31, 1955, May 13, 1955] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1955-1969), Box #14.021, Folder #21.1]
- Letter from LP to Editor of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, RE: LP is enclosing a check for $17.00 for a two year subscription for himself and for the Balloil College in Oxford, England. [Editor's letter March 1955] [Filed under LP Peace: (Bulletin of Atomic Scientsits, 1948-1964,), Box #3.016, Folder #16.4]
- Letter from LP to Hans-Joachim Bruchner RE: Will be interested to hear about Bruchner's final results with the nitrogen calculations. Refers to a recent paper in the Physical Review on new bands in nitric oxide and their relation to the heat of dissociation of the nitrogen molecule. Believes the authors must be right. Does not understand the question Bruchner raised about the decision between penetration complex bonds and covalent bonds. Clarifies his position on the issue. Regrets to inform Bruchner that he was not selected for the Noyes Fellowship at Caltech. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1955-1957), #38.1]
- Letter from LP to J.O.A. Bourke, New South Wales University of Technology, RE: Informs him that Dr. D.P. Mellor spent a year at Caltech laboratories about twenty years ago. Remembers Mellor as an able, well-trained chemist interested in the magnetic properties of inorganic complexes and in the determination of the structure of crystals with x-rays. Has followed Mellor's published papers, which represent a significant contribution to science. [Letter from Bourke to LP January 25, 1955, Letter from LP to Bourke March 31, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Individual Correspondence. (Mead - Miller)), #246.7]
- Letter from LP to Professor Dr. W. Lautsch, Institute for Organic Chemistry, Free University of Berlin, RE: Unable to accept the invitation to come to Berlin, as he does not plan to visit Europe in the summer of 1955. Hopes to visit Berlin at some future time, possibly in 1956. [Letter from Wulf to Lautsch February 4, 1955, Letter from Lautsch to LP April 6, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1955-1960), #231.1]
- Letter from LP to Ralph E. Fash RE: Believes that Fash likely does not understand what physicists and other scientists are doing. Perhaps Fash has discovered something new, for new things about nature are being discovered every day. Should publish them if he has found any new answers. Describes three questions that physicists are currently working on. Only if other scientists believe that his theory has some value will Fash have the opportunity to gather a team of specialists to work on his ideas. [Letter from Fash to LP February 19, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1935-1956), #128.20]
- Letter from LP to Sir Henry Dale RE: Informs him that Dale's letter of congratulations regarding the Nobel Prize arrived while LP and AHP were abroad. Regrets that he was not in Pasadena when Mr. Perrin visited. [Letter from LP to Dale July 26, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1936-1959)), #98.20]
- Letter from Mary Ann Sanders, Secretary to George Wald, Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, to Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, RE: Encloses an announcement of the Prather Lectures giving the titles, dates, time, and place. Arrangements have been made for LP and AHP to stay at the Dana-Palmer House. Reservation has been changed to include April 12. [Letter from Wald to LP March 29, 1955] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1955s.5]
- Letter from Sidney Bernhard, Naval Medical Research Institute, National Naval Medical Center, to LP RE: Looking forward to visiting Caltech in April. Would like to discuss LP's recent work on phosphate bond energies and enthalpies. Has discussed with Jim Watson the possibility of working with the "space filling" nucleic acid models. Have been working on template models of RNA and DNA, particularly on the problem on constructing nearly infallible specific sites for similar amino acids. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1955-1957), #38.1]
- Speech: "The Molecular Structure of Biological Materials," Modern Chemistry for Engineers and Scientists, Berkeley. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1955s.2]
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