Roger Hayward
920 Linda Vista Avenue
Pasadena, California
91105
November 8, 1965
Professor Linus Pauling
794 Hot Springs Road
Santa Barbara California 95013
Dear Linus,
Enclosed herewith is the book of acknowledgements from the gifts of the Architecture of Molecules which Gerry Piel sent to the various captains of industry. Stan mentioned this in his letter of November 4th and asked that I send it on to you and you will then send it to him.
The MIT technology Review has taken a couple of plates to use as coworkers. I expect the first to appear in their November issue.
I enjoyed your paper on the Close-Packed-Spheron Theory and Nuclear Fission in the October 15th Science. Some of the structures you show seem to be old friends albeit in intermetallic compounds instead of nuclei.
Do the 90-odd separately identified particles which come from breaking the nuclei into little bits represent varying amounts of nuclear "glue" which sticks to the little pieces? Perhaps they are simply pieces contaminated with packing-fraction energy turned back into matter. Could these small mass differences be a function of the number of intra nuclear bonds which are broken? I hope you don't mind my flights of fancy.
I also was interested in the new ice structure which Barclay has published. This would make an interesting picture for some subsequent edition of something.
Betty joins me in best regards to you and Ava Helen.
Sincerely,
Roger
November
8, 1965
