Letter from Linus Pauling to Robert Spenger. September 20, 1966. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Letter from AHP to Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Schaefer, RE: Thanks the Schaefers for allowing AHP to stay with them when she went to be with Crellin. [Filed under Ava Helen Pauling General Correspondence, Box 1.002, Folder 2.2]
• Letter from B. Timothy Walsh, Princeton University, to LP . RE: Discusses LP's acceptance as the Plaut Lecturer, and arrangements for the lectures. [Filed under LP Speeches, Box 1967s2.7]
• Letter from George B. Kauffman, Alfred Werner Centennial Symposium, Fresno State College, to LP RE: Expresses how much he enjoyed his recent talk before the CACT at Asilomar. Suggests he might be interested to know that Alfred Werner had a hand in the formulation of the concept of hydrogen bonging. [Letter from LP to Kauffman October 5, 1966][Filed under LP Correspondence: K: Individual Correspondence (Kauffman, George B.): Box #197, Folder #197.8]
• Letter from LP to Bimal Kr. Das RE: Informs that most universities accepting international students select those with the best records. Shares that he is no longer at the California Institute of Technology. [Note from Das to LP September 3, 1966][Filed under LP Correspondence: D: Correspondence, 1960-1966: Box #99, Folder #99.7] 
• Letter from LP to Cliff Mackay RE: Informs that he has no examined Dr. Velikovsky’s recent work. States that in past examination of his work, he could not find any justification for many of his statements. [Letter from Mackay September 1, 1966][Filed under LP Correspondence: M: Correspondence, 1966: Box #260, Folder #260.2] 
• Letter from LP to Donald West King, University of Colorado, Medical Center, RE: Invites him to participate in the fourth annual Pathobiology Meeting. [Letter from LP to King October 7, 1966][Filed under LP Correspondence: K: Correspondence, 1966: Box #202, Folder #202.4] 
• Letter from LP to Dr. A. Wolfenden Metals and Ceramics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory RE: He doesn't think Dr. Wolfenden's suggestions will cause any change to happen. He explains his experience with trying to replace the name helium with helion. [Filed under LP Correspondence: W: Correspondence, 1966-1970: Box #447, Folder #447.1]
• Letter from LP to Lucile Jenkins, RE: Thanks Jenkins for sending him the special edition of the Corvallis paper. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family, Box 5.053, Folder 53.19]
• Letter from LP to Professor Robert Livingston, Institute of the Neurological Sciences, University of California, RE: Proposes that an experimental study be made of the optimal concentrations of molecular environment in the treatment of mental disease. Asks if he knows about any previous proposal for providing the optimal concentration of various substances in the treatment of mental disease. Asks if he thinks any of the brain research people of psychiatrists in UCSD would be interested in work along those lines. [Filed under LP Correspondence: L: Correspondence, 1966: Box #233, Folder #233.3] 
• Letter from LP to Professor Robert Spenger, Chemistry department California State College at Fullerton. [Filed under LP Correspondence: S: Correspondence, 1966-1967: Box #384, Folder #384.1]

  September 20, 1966

  Professor Robert Spenger

  Chemistry Department

  California State College at Fullerton

  800 North State College Boulevard

  Fullerton, California 92631

  Dear Professor Spenger:

  I have been pleased to read your letter and to learn about your efforts to discuss the stability of nuclei on the basis of the spheron theory.

  Some of the points that you discuss are treated in a paper of mine that is now in the course of publication (Roumanian Journal of Physics). When I receive reprints I shall send one to you.

  I think that some of your questions can be answered by my saying that I consider the nuclei in general to involve resonance among various structures, such as structures of helions and tritons, on the one hand, and of helions and dineutrons, on the other. I am trying now to make the description more precise.

  I think that I used the word trelion, for He3 in my lecture. I have been using this word for a couple of years, but published it first in the new paper that I mention above.

  Much of the discussion in my earlier papers was based on results that I obtained with use of models - cork balls of different sizes.

  It seems clear that the energy of a nucleus is largely determined by the quantized levels involved in the shell model, but that in addition some geometric factors are of significance, and it is the geometric factors that are emphasized in the close-packed spheron model.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP:fkg

• Letter from William K. Purves Associate Professor of Biochemistry University of California RE: Invites LP to speak at the Biology Seminars. [Filed under LP Correspondence: P: Correspondence, 1964-1969: Box #315, Folder #315.3]