Activity Listings
- Check from AH P to Chamber Music Society for $6.40. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
- Check from AHP to Athenaeum for $42.46. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
- Check from AHP to Colby Museums for $26.26. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
- Check from AHP to Linda Pauling for $25.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
- Check from AHP to Mira Loma Mutual Water Company for $19.62. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
- Check from AHP to Newlin for $57.63. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
- Check from AHP to Shopping International for $19.80. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
- Check from AHP to Southern California Edison Company for $23.13. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
- Check from AHP to Southwest Museum for $7.50. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
- Check from AHP to Standard Oil Company of California for $88.51. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
- Letter from Carey McWilliams, Editor, The Nation, to LP RE: Requests permission to send their science reporter stationed in San Francisco to interview him about the chemistry of mental illness. [Letter from McWilliams to LP January 14, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1957), #257.2]
- Letter from Cass Canfield, Chairman, Editorial Board, Harper & Brothers Publishers, to LP RE: Tells LP that he will find enclosed a letter from Szilard and a memorandum prepared by Szilard and Doering of Yale. Explains that he has been discussing with Szilard and Doering the plans for the development of research in the area of biology and public health and that he has agreed to serve on the Board of Trustees of the proposed Institutes. Says that LP's reactions and suggestions regarding the memorandum will be appreciated. [Letter from LP to Canfield January 31, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Szilard, Leo: Report Correspondence), Box #372, Folder #372.1]
- Letter from Dr. Alfred Chanutin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Virginia School of Medicine, to LP RE: Requests information on Dr. Makio Murayama who is being considered for a position at the University. [Letter from LP to Chanutin January 17, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1957), #257.2]
- Letter from Frederick D. Rossini, Silliman Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Institute of Technology, to LP RE: Tells LP that he wishes to learn about the changes he has made in the chemistry program for freshman at Caltech. [Letter from LP to Rossini January 17, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Individual Correspondence, Rosbaud-Rundle), #336.4]
- Letter from Harlow W. Ades, University of Texas, to LP RE: Invites LP to stay for three days at the University of Texas and make two or three speeches during that time. Mentions that an honorarium of $500 is customary and all expenses will be paid. Asks if LP can come sometime in March, April or May. [Letter from LP to Ades January 17, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.20]
- Letter from John Chipman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to LP RE: Informs LP that a group at MIT is planning to nominate Professor Carl Wagner for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Encloses a draft of the statement that they will send to the Nobel Institute and tells LP that they would appreciate his assistance if he agrees with them about the importance of Wagner's work on crystal imperfections. Lets LP know that they are planning to send the nomination by air mail on January 24. [Letter from LP to Chipman January 17, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1953-1959), Box #444, Folder #444.5]
- Letter from LP to Dora E. Young, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation RE: Reports on Dr. James Harriman Jandl saying that he spoke with Dr. Castle about Dr. Jandl spending a year at Pasadena to gain more knowledge of the behavior and structures of molecules he indicated in his application. Dr. Castle said he was interested in this possibility but LP has not heard anything else. [Filed under LP Science: Helen Hay Whitney Foundation- Scientific Advisory Committee: Postdoctoral Biomedical Research Fellowship Applicants, 1958: Box #15.007, Folder #7.1]
- Letter from LP to Dora E. Young, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, RE: Discusses the applicant, James Jandl, and what the other members of the scientific advisory board thought of him. Brings up the possibility of Jandl coming to Pasadena for a year. [Filed under LP Science: (Helen Hay Whitney Foundation-Scientific Advisory Committee: Postdoctoral Biomedical Research Fellowship Applicants, 1956-1957), Box #15.005, Folder #5.2]
- Letter from LP to Dora E. Young, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, RE: Informs of Dr. Seely's plans for the coming year. Discusses the financial support needed from the fellowship needed for Dr. Seely's work. [Filed under LP Science: (Helen Hay Whitney Foundation-Scientific Advisory Committee: Postdoctoral Biomedical Research Fellowship Applicants, 1956-1957), Box #15.005, Folder #5.4]
- Letter from LP to Dora E. Young, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, RE: Informs that he is sending over his report on Dr. J. Rodman Seely. Asks for Dr. Seely to be reimbursed for his traveling expenses. [Filed under LP Science: (Helen Hay Whitney Foundation-Scientific Advisory Committee: Postdoctoral Biomedical Research Fellowship Applicants, 1956-1957), Box #15.005, Folder #5.4]
- Letter from LP to Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation RE: LP sends his report on Group Biochemistry 1957. [Letters from Moe to LP January 9, 1957, January 17, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder #15.5]
- Letter from LP to Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation RE: LP sends his report on Group Chemical Engineering 1957. [Letters from Moe to LP January 9, 1957, January 17, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder #15.5]
- Letter from LP to Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, RE: LP sends his report on Group Chemistry 1957. [Letters from Moe to LP January 9, 1957, January 17, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder #15.5]
- Letter from LP to Professor Roger J. Williams, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, RE: Says they have 180 + 10 students in general chemistry each year, about half majoring in science and half majoring in engineering, and a few graduating to go to medical school. Explains that two lectures are given each week, either by himself or by one of his Associate Professors and that the same textbook is used with both lectures. Tells Williams that all the students attend the same lectures and that students in different sections take the same quizzes and final exams. Explains that the 180 students are divided into 9 sections, each with a graduate student in charge during the 3 hour laboratory periods and one recitation. [Letter from Williams to LP January 9, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Williams, Roger J., 1936-1991), Box #436, Folder #436.10]
- Letter from LP, to Dr. Braceland, President, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, RE: Delcines the invitation to be on the Commission at the Association's annual conference. [Letter from Braceland to LP January 7, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1957), #38.3]
- Letter from Leo Szilard to LP RE: Tells LP that he and Dr. William Doering of Yale prepared a Memorandum which proposes the creation of the Research Institute for Fundamental Biology and Public Health and the Institute for Problem Studies. Says he wants to know if LP agrees with the proposal contained in the Memorandum and asks if he will be willing to serve as an Affiliate Member of the Research Institute. Explains that the Institutes will not make great demands of him as an Affiliate Member. Explains that Mr. Canfield, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Harper & Brothers, Publishers, could not go much farther with this planning unless their views were shared by others. Encloses an Appendix with the Memorandum which contains Szilard's guesses of what kind of work might be done in the Institutes. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Szilard, Leo: Report Correspondence), Box #372, Folder #362.1]
- Telegram from LL Thompson, Aerojel General Corporation, to LP RE: Requests a recommendation for Albert Mills Soldate, who applied for a job with the company. Handwritten note in right margins delineates LP's reply, that he is a hard worker, well trained, and well liked, among other qualities. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Soldate, Albert M), #365.12]
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January
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