December 13, 1965 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Bank Book Entry: Brand fee. $3.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.039, Folder #39.1]

Bank Book Entry: Green, Hennings, Henry &Arnold. “Legal expenses.” $1,764.71. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.039, Folder #39.1]

Check from LP to Green, Hennings, Henry, & Arnold RE: $1,764.71. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP December 24, 1965] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.2]

Letter form Mai Van Bo Republique Democratiue du Viet-Nam to LP RE: [Written in French] [Filed under LP Peace: Box #6.005, Folder #5.1]

Letter from Bob Hofstadter to LP RE: Preliminary data on Ca40 and Ca48. [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: 32R, Folder #1]

Letter from Claude Charette, to LP. RE: Explains that he had not received his letter when he wrote on December 10. Outlines the course work that will be available at the university. Lists the faculty members. Asks him to reply by telegram. Handwritten note indicates that LP decided not to give permission to use his name. [Letter from LP January 4, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: D: Correspondence, 1963-1965: Box #77 Folder #77.3]

Letter from Joseph E. Mayer, University of California San Diego, to LP. RE: Asks for his evaluation of Martin Karplus. [Letter from LP December 16, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: M: Individual Correspondence (Mayer, Joseph): Box # 244 Folder #244.8]

Letter from LP to A. M. Gaudin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. RE: Thanks him for his letter, with mention of the book. Is going to see if the book is in the local library. [Letter from Gaudin November 16, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: G: Correspondence, 1962-1965: Box # 142 Folder #142.4]

Letter from LP to Bernhard Kendler, Cornell University Press. RE: Informs him that his delay in finishing the manuscript of the Chemical Bond is due to a bad cold. Will have it done be the first of January. [Letter from Kendler October 11, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: K: Correspondence, (1963-1966): Box # 202 Folder #202.3]

Letter from LP to Eugenia Wolfson, Society of Cultural Relations. RE: Is sorry that he didn’t get his answer off in time. [Letter from Wolfson December 4, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: W: Correspondence, 1965: Box # 446 Folder #446.3]

Letter from LP to Frank Catchpool. RE: Informs him that he has a sinus infection. Is grateful to him for taking care of Frank and Norah Toole. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Catchpool, John Francis, 1959-1994: Box #62 Folder #62.7]

Letter from LP to Frank Toole. RE: Hopes to see them later. Has been sick for three weeks. Asks if they could come see them in January. Thanks them for the maple syrup. [Filed under LP Correspondence: T: Individual Correspondence (Toole, Frank J.): Box #407 Folder #407.8]

Letter from LP to Franz Schneider. RE: Is unable to take time to prepare the article that he has requested. [Letter from Schneider November 29, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: S: Correspondence (1965): Box #383 Folder #383.2]

Letter from LP to G. R. Saini. RE: Informs him that he does not have any laboratory facilities available and there is no way he could arrange for Saini to work with him. [Letter from Saini October 29, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: S: Correspondence (1965): Box #383 Folder #383.2]

Letter from LP to Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber, Brookhaven National Laboratory. RE: Was pleased to receive her letter and two reprints. Is studying her question about the dependence of the transition on the proton number. [Filed under LP Correspondence: S: Correspondence (1965): Box #383 Folder #383.2]

Letter from LP to Harold H. Belcher. RE: Thinks he should find some straightforward evidence for the existence of his theory. Sends reprints. [Letter from Belcher October 21, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: B: Correspondence 1965-1966: Box #41 Folder #41.1]

Letter from LP to Joy Hays, CIT. RE: Asks for 50 copies of each of the available reprints of papers of which LP is an author, and asks her to distribute the rest in the usual way. [Letter from Joy Hays November 19, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: H: Correspondence, 1963-1966: Box #169 Folder #169.3]

Letter from LP to N. H. Nachtrieb, University of Chicago. RE: Informs him that he is unable to participate in the symposium to honor the memory of James Franck. [Filed under LP Correspondence: N: Correspondence (1965-1974): Box #289 Folder #289.1]

Letter from LP to Robert M. Mazo, University of Oregon. [Letter from Mazo November 29, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: K: Individual Correspondence (Karplus, Martin) Box #197 Folder #197.6]

December 13, 1965

Professor Robert M. Mazo

Institute of Theoretical Science

University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon 97403

Dear Professor Mazo:

I am pleased to learn from your letter that you are trying to persuade Martin Karplus to accept an appointment in the University of Oregon.

First, I apologize for not having answered your letter of 29 November earlier. I have been kept from work by a severe cold.

As to Martin Karplus, I have first to say that I think that he is the most able theoretical man to have studied with me. I may compare him with Professor E. Bright Wilson, Jr., of Harvard University, who took his Ph. D. with me twenty years before Karplus. I believe that Karplus is comparable to Bright Wilson in ability, and that he is to be considered among the most able theoretical chemists in the United States, probably in the top ten.

He has carried out some strikingly original work since his graduate years. There is no doubt that he has a mastery of theoretical chemistry, including all applications of quantum mechanics. He is a good lecturer and an able teacher.

You probably know that when Professor Wilson and I decided that it would be wise to prepare a second edition of our book Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (first edition 1935), we selected Martin Karplus to do the major job of revision. He has been writing a greatly improved and enlarged book.

I feel that I can recommend Professor Karplus for appointment in the University of Oregon without any reservation.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling

mjh

Letter from LP to Roger Hayward. RE: Thanks him for his letter. Has decided that it is too early to write an article for Scientific American. [Letter from Hayward November 20, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: H: Individual Correspondence (Hayward, Roger): Box #152 Folder Box #152.9]

Letter from LP to Tom Nixon. RE: Sends him a booklet containing his address at Pacem in Terris and an appeal signed by 8 recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. [Letter from Nixon November 23, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: N: Correspondence, 1965: Box #289 Folder #289.1]

Letter from Vanessa Redgrave, to LP. RE: Sends him a statement that she will have running in Times as a full page advertisement. Asks him to write to Philip Noel-Baker and ask him to sign the statement. [Letter from LP December 20, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: R: Correspondence (1965): Box #343 Folder #343.2]

Memorandum from John Wilkinson to Staff of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions RE: Denotes the enclosure of Time and Technics abstract. Handwritten note in top right corner “LP”. [Attached to Time and Technics abstract by Loren Eisley] [Filed Under LP Biographical: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1960, 1963-1970, 1989: Box #1.036, Folder #36.4]

Memorandum from LP to Frank Kelly. RE: Informs him of a telephone conversation with Dr. Ovidiu Popescu. Attaches a sheet of names of people that they would like invited to the luncheon and ceremony. [Filed under LP Correspondence: K: Correspondence (1963-1966): Box #202 Folder #202.3] also [Filed under LP Correspondence: R: Organizational Correspondence: (Romania Academy of Socialist Republic): Box #339 Folder #339.6]

Receipt from First Western Bank to LP and AHP RE: Deposit receipt for $903.64. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.030, Folder #30.2]

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