"Statement about Nuclear Bomb Tests." May 2, 1957. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 4 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from AHP to Pearl M. Jordan for $100.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
• Check: John Hopkins University to LP for $500 [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.3]
• Itinerary: Baltimore, John's Hopkins [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.3]
• Itinerary: Hemoglobin Conference, National Academy of Sciences, 9 AM, Washington DC [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.3]
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Dr. F.D. Smith, Monsanto Chemical Company RE: Notifies him that LP will not be in Pasadena when he visits CIT, but that Professor Carl Niemann will show him around the Institute. [Memo from Dr. Niemann to Mrs. Wulf April 30, 1957, Memo from Mrs. Wulf to Mr. Goldberg May 3, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1957), #380.1]
• Letter from Dr. Henry K. Beecher, Massachusetts General Hospital, to LP RE: Tentatively planning a series of lectures under the title of "Disease and Basic Science." Lists names of those who have agreed to deliver lectures. Invites LP to lecture on advances that have been made in chemistry which have been stimulated by disease states, such as LP's work on abnormal forms of hemoglobin. The lectures will probably be given a year from this autumn, grouped together as a series of Lowell lectures. [Letter from LP to Henry K. Beecher June 12, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1958s2.8]
• Letter from Dr. R.R. Newell, Stanford University School of Medicine to LP RE: Questions how he determined that Atom bomb tests have caused 10,000 leukemia deaths. Lists some assumptions he thinks LP made. Disputes LP's claim but does agree with the stopping of bomb tests, mainly to prevent war and not because of a supposed increase in the threat of leukemia. Claims that he could prove, on the basis of his assumptions that he made about LP's calculations, that if one more cigarette was smoked per day than 1,000 more deaths would be caused. [Letter from LP to Dr. Newell May 20, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1957), #288.1]
• Letter from Dr. W.W. Akers, Chairman, Chemical Engineering Department, The Rice Institute, to LP RE: Requests another copy of a report on publications by staff members in the Chemistry Department at Cal Tech. Also asks LP ways that Rice can make changes in its course on quantitative analysis. Handwritten note in right margin: (55.56 sent 5/10/57 [Letter from LP to Dr. Akers May 13, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1957), #12.23]
• Letter from George Tarjan, Superintendent and Medical Superintendent, Pacific State Hospital, to Alexander Simon, Medical Superintendent, Langley Porter Clinic, cc: LP, RE: Encloses tabulation of patients who died from 1941 to 1957 and on whom postmortem central nervous system examination was performed. The tabulation supports the presumption that senile plaque formations appear more quickly in mongolism at a much younger age. [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.089, Folder #89.3]
• Letter from LP to Professor W. E. Wallace, Department of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, RE: Tells Wallace that he is sending under separate cover 2 copies of the 1956-57 Catalogue of the California Institute of Technology. [Letter from Wallace to LP, April 22, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1953-1959), Box #444, Folder #444.5]
• Letter from Robert L. Butenhoff, National Science Foundation to LP RE: Attaches a copy of the U.S. Fact Book for the International Science Section, Brussels Universal and International Exhibition of 1958. [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder #30.6]
• Memo from Beatrice Wulf to Mr. Goldberg RE: Notifies him that Dr. F.D. Smith, from the Monsanto Chemical Company is coming to visit CIT and has expressed a desire to meet him, since he holds one of the Monsanto Scholarships. Asks whether he will be available during Dr. Smith's visit. [Letter from Mrs. Wulf to Dr. Smith May 3, 1957, Memo from Mrs. Wulf to Mr. Rinker May 3, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1957), #380.1]
• Memo from Beatrice Wulf to Robert Rinker RE: Notifies him that Dr. F.D. Smith, from the Monsanto Chemical Company is coming to visit CIT and has expressed a desire to meet him, since he holds one of the Monsanto Fellowships Asks whether he will be available during Dr. Smith's visit. [Memo from Beatrice Wulf to Mr. Goldberg May 3, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1957), #380.1]
• Newspaper Clipping: "500 Attend Pauling Talk," Baltimore (Maryland) Sun, May 3, 1957. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960), Box #6.007, Folder #7.32]
• Note from Kay Nakamura, to Beatrice Wulf RE: Notifies that a test on urine for Phenylketonuria was negative but a blood test would be more reliable. Typed Note in right margin: "Mrs. Bowen's Patient." [Letter from LP to Mrs. Bowen May 14, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1957), #38.3]