Letter from Linus Pauling to Otto M. Smith. December 19, 1955. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from AHP to Adohr Milk Farm for $8.99. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
• Check from AHP to Crellin Pauling for $15.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.2]
• Check from AHP to Happy's for $50.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.2]
• Check from AHP to Miller Tree Service for $243.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
• Check from AHP to Pearl M. Jordan for $100.00. [Field under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
• Check from AHP to Phelps-Terkel for $23.75. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.2]
• Letter from Allan Botshon, Yale Law School Forum, to LP RE: Yale Law School Forum invites LP to address the faculty and student body of the Law School during the current school year, perhaps on the subject of the impact on free scientific inquiry of the federal loyalty-security program. Program will consist of an informal cocktail party, then dinner, followed by the address at 8 or 8:30 PM. Question period generally follows. Suggests a Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday evening, perhaps in March. [Letter from LP to Botshon January 16, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.17]
• Letter from Dael Wolfle, Administrative Secretary, Science, to Professor A. Gero, Hahnemann Medical College, RE: Pleased to publish "A Chemical Model of Drug Action" without any further changes. Gero's reasons for wanting the paper to be published in its present form are valid. Requests Gero's opinion regarding the main entries and subentries under which the article should be indexed. [Letter from Wolfle to Gero December 5, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Organizational Correspondence. (Sa - Sc)), #374.6]
• Letter from Dr. O.H. Gaebler, Program Committee, International Symposium on Enzymes, Henry Ford Hospital, to LP RE: Dr. Watson sent Gaebler the manuscript of the Fourth Edsel B. Ford Lecture, which LP gave at the International Symposium on Enzymes. Sent manuscript to the Editor of the Henry Ford Hospital Quarterly Bulletin. Would like permission to publish the manuscript in the proceedings of the Symposium. [Letter from Wulf to Rupe October 7, 1955, Letter from Howard to LP December 22, 1955] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1955s.25]
• Letter from Dr. Stephen H. Fritchman, First Unitarian Church, to LP RE: Mentions group of 300 delegates from Universalist and Unitarian churches in southern California will be attending summer conference. Carey McWilliams, Norman Thomas, and Anna Louise Strong have recently been key note speakers. Believes LP and AHP would enjoy the group and their conference. [Letter from LP to Fritchman December 27, 1955] [Filed under LP Peace: Box 4.001, Folder 1.1]
• Letter from John Simpson to LP RE: Simpson is enclosing an outline for a special symposium which the Bulletin is going to publish during April through December 1956 to commemorate their tenth anniversary. [Filed under LP Peace: (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 1948-1964), Box #3.016, Folder #16.4]
• Letter from LP to Donald E. Loeffler, San Francisco Chapter, Caltech Alumni Association, RE: Accepts the invitation to speak before the San Francisco Chapter of the Caltech Alumni Association. LP and AHP will be at Berkeley January 3-13 and February 14-26. LP does not yet know the schedule of his lectures at Berkeley. Suggests waiting until he arrives at Berkeley and finds out the schedule, then setting a date for the meeting for sometime during the February visit. [Letters from Loeffler to LP December 13, 1955, January 7, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1955-1960), #231.1]
• Letter from LP to Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, RE: LP recommends that Drs. J.W. Williams and C.N.H. Long be granted a Fellowship. LP cannot make a strong recommendation one way or the other for Dr. Herbert Friedmann. [Letters from Moe to LP December 14, 1955, January 3, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder #15.3]
• Letter from LP to Joseph Capsin, RE: Thanks Capsin for the clippings from the newspapers. Did not like to have to take time from his work to go to Washington to testify before the Hennings subcommittee, but believes it was worthwhile to do so. Believes that Senator Hennings is doing a fine job. [Letter from Capsin to LP December 26, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Individual Correspondence. (Caen - Cassyd)), #57.9]
• Letter from LP to Mary Agnes Welch RE: Does not have any literature about radioactive isotopes used in medicine. Some of Caltech's staff are interested in this subject, but they have found that they have not written anything that would be useful to Welch. Suggests that Welch request literature from the Donner Laboratory for Medical Physics at the University of California in Berkeley. [Letter from Welch to Caltech December 9, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1953-1959), #444.3]
• Letter from LP to Professor Bruce A. Benson, Physics Dept., Amherst College, RE: Suggests the title "Abnormal Hemoglobin Molecules in Relation to Disease" for his talk at Amherst in April. Will let Benson know later about the time of his arrival. [Letter from Benson to LP December 12, 1955, Letter from LP to Benson January 3, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.19]
• Letter from LP to Professor H.F. Johnstone, University of Illinois, RE: Pleased to hear about Johnstone's students. Will hand Johnstone's letter over to Professor William H. Corcoran, who can check up on Caltech's prospective graduates in applied chemistry to see if he can recommend any of them to Johnstone. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (J: Correspondence, 1933-1934, 1936-1964), #192.21]
• Letter from LP to Professor Otto M. Smith, Research Foundation, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College. [Letter from Smith to LP December 6, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1953-1956), #379.3]

  19 December 1955

  Professor Otto M. Smith

  Research Foundation

  Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College

  Stillwater, Oklahoma

  Dear Professor Smith:

  Here are my answers to the five questions in your letter of 6 December.

  1. I think that I can say that we pay professors who do outstanding work as teachers and leaders of young men and women, on a twelve-month service and pay basis, as much as professors who are doing research. All of our professors receive at least the minimum professorial salary here, without respect to the nature of their activities. Factors taken into consideration in granting salary increases include teaching, administrative work, research, general activity in the community, etc., with teaching bearing as important a part as any other factor.

  2. All of our permanent staff members are on a twelve-month basis. We do not have summer school, but all of our staff members are paid through the summer, and cannot accept, in general, other jobs without asking for leave of absence from the Institute. None of our professors receives extra pay for carrying on research during the summer, either his own research or contract research.

  3. I think that the opportunities for advancement of an outstandingly good teacher who does not do research probably are as good here as for an outstandingly good research man who does not do teaching. Most of the professors in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering do teaching and research.

  4. We do not have a well-defined plan of designating a "distinguished professor." For four years we had a man (Professor John G. Kirkwood), in a special professorship, the Arthur Amos Noyes Professorship. Professor Kirkwood is an able teacher and an able research man. The professorship is not an endowed professorship - the designation was made by the Board of Trustees in honor of Professor Noyes, and since Professor Kirkwood's resignation the professorship has not been continued.

  5. I think that I myself feel that the quality of staff members

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  lecturing in general chemistry and working in general chemistry laboratory is as high as of those working in the upper classes for chemistry majors. I give most of the lectures in general chemistry, and I have tried to make them as good as possible.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Robert W. McKinney, Corresponding Secretary, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Chemistry Dept., University of Kansas, RE: Looking forward to delivering the E.C. Franklin Memorial Lecture on "The Structure of Proteins." Does not have any preference with respect to the menu for dinner. Pleased that he does not have a strict diet any longer. LP and AHP will be able to arrive in Kansas City by air on Saturday or Sunday. [Letter from McKinney to LP December 8, 1955, Letter from LP to McKinney March 12, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.22]
• Letter from Leonard Zweig, Production Supervisor, "Youth Wants to Know," National Broadcasting Company, to LP RE: Confirms arrangements for LP's appearance on "Youth Wants to Know" on NBC-TV on January 1, 1956. Program will be kinescoped on December 30. Will be at the Institute on December 26 to speak with LP about the program. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.1]