Letter from Linus Pauling to Wayne M. McCann. April 21, 1969. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Administrative Circular from UCSD RE: news and updates from various departments. [Filed under Biographical: Academia. Box #1.037, Folder #37.5].Wells Fargo Bank deposit slip for Pauling, $4,000.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial. Box #4.036, Folder #36.5].
• Letter from Dr. George Burch, Jr., Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, Tulane University, to LP RE: Mentions that they are having difficulties locating the old records that LP requested because of the reorganizing of the School of Medicine. [Letter from Burch to LP, 1969] [Letter from LP to Burch, 1, 1969] [Letter from Burch to LP, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Individual Correspondence (Buchbinder - Butler)), Box #33, Folder #33.8]
• Letter from Dr. George H. Lowrey, Professor of Pediatrics, Chairman of Dedication Ceremonies, University of Michigan Medical Center, to LP RE: Invites LP to visit the University of Michigan on September 25^th for the dedication ceremony of the new Children's Hospital in the University of Michigan Medical Center and give an address at the ceremony. [Letter from LP to Lowrey, 1, 1969] [Letter from Lowrey to LP, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1967-1971), Box #234, Folder #234.3]
• Letter from Dr. M. Hudlicky, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, to LP RE: Encloses a copy of the letter he sent to LP in the beginning of February. Pleads, again, that LP call the attention of intellectuals to the deteriorating situation of Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia and also asks him to write about the misuse of force by a political power. [Letters from LP to Hudlicky, 1969, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1967-1969), Box #170, Folder #170.3]
• Letter from LP [signed by Jana Junkermann] to Dodd, Mead & Company RE: Asks if they have any more copies of the paperback edition of his book No More War! and if they do, requests 24 copies to be sent to LP and include the invoice. [Filed under LP Books: 1958b3.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Alejandro Zaffaroni, President, Director of Research, ALZA Corporation, RE: Thanks Zaffaroni for his provision of a grant to support LP's work and informs him that he received a letter from P. M. West, Administrative Officer of the Chemistry Department at Stanford University regarding how payments should be made. Tells him that a fund will be set up for LP at Stanford and suggests that Zaffaroni make his check payable to Stanford University and send it, along with a copy of his letter to West, to President Pitzer. [Letters from Zaffaroni to LP, 1969, 1, 1969] [Letter from LP to Zaffaroni, 0, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Z: Individual Correspondence (Zachariasen - Ziferstein)), Box #464, Folder #464.2]Letter from LP to Miss Ruth Brooks RE: LP asks that she send $5,000 of his Chester Carlson Fund to the California Institute of Technology to be used for support of his research as directed by him. Says he has been appointed Professor of Chemistry in Stanford University and will move there about July 1st, 1969. [Filed under Biographical: Academia: Box #1.036, Folder #36.8].
• Letter from LP to Dr. Arthur Cherkin, Chief, Psychobiology Research, Sepulveda Veterans Administration Hospital, RE: Returns Cherkin's revised manuscript with final comments and encloses a letter sent to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Letter from LP to Cherkin, 5, 1969] [Letter from Cherkin to LP, 1, 1969] [Letter from LP to Cherkin, 9, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Individual Correspondence (Chamberlain - Cherkin)), Box #64, Folder #64.9]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Michael Danos, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, RE: Thanks him for sending the copies of his lecture notes; asks for a reference for how to introduce coordinates of nucleons, as was described at the Seuss's. [Letter from Danos to LP, 1, 1969] [Letter from LP to Danos, 4, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1967-1973), Box #100, Folder #100.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Robert M. Hutchins RE: LP asks that his leave of absence from the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions be extended for one year. He has been appointed Professor of Chemistry at Standford and will be moving there about July 1st. He expects to like it better than UCSD because there is more interest in structural chemistry and he will not have the problems with the regents and governor that he has with UCSD. [Filed under Biographical: Academia: Box #1.036, Folder #36.8]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Sam Morell RE: Gives details on their travel plans to arrive in Milwaukee on May 31st and regrets that they must leave by the following Monday and can't accept Dr. Morell's invitation to visit his summer cottage. [Filed under LP Awards: Box #1969h, Folder #1969h.2].
• Letter from LP to Dr. William W. Engstrom, Marquette School of Medicine, RE: Mentions Sam Morells, a friend of the Paulings, whom Engstrom already knows about, and does not suggest any others to be invited for the luncheon and Commencement. Tells him that they are looking forward to meeting with Engstrom, the Board of Directors, the Deans, and the rest of Marquette University. [Letter from Engstrom to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1960-1969), Box #113, Folder #113.10]
• Letter from LP to Josephine Williams National Academy of Sciences RE: LP submits a manuscript "Kinetic of Memory Consolidation: Role of Amnesic Treatment Parameters" by Arthur Cherkin to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences), Box # 14.021, Folder # 21.5]
• Letter from LP to Josephine Williams, National Academy of Sciences, RE: Submits the manuscript entitled "Kinetics of Memory Consolidation: Role of Amnesic Treatment Parameters" by Arthur Cherkin for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which he has read and approves for publication. Requests that she send proofs to Dr. Cherkin. [Letter from Williams to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Organizational Correspondence (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)), Box #311, Folder #311.5]
• Letter from LP to P. M. West, Administrative Officer, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, RE: Tells West that he should soon receive notice of a gift to Stanford University for support of LP's research, which should be placed in LP's research account to be established at Stanford. Notes that he believes the check will be sent to President Pitzer and that a copy of the transmission will be sent to West. [Letter from LP to West, 8, 1969] [Letter from West to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1966-1970), Box #447, Folder #447.4]
• Letter from LP to Professor Darrell P. Eyman, Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa, RE: Declines the invitation to visit the University of Iowa for one week as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Chemistry because he has a large amount of work at Stanford University and also has other obligations in which he has already agreed to participate. [Letter from Eyman to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1960-1969), Box #113, Folder #113.10]
• Letter from LP to Professor George S. Hammond, Division of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, RE: Requests that Dr. Gustav Albrecht be reappointed Research Fellow for the coming year dated July 1, 1969 to June 30, 1970. Notes that he asked the Fund for the Republic to send $5,000 to the California Institute of Technology to support his research during the coming year and mentions that there are a few minor items to be charged, in addition to Dr. Albrecht's salary. [Letter from LP to Hammond, 7, 1969] [Letters from Hammond to LP, 1, 1969, 2, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Individual Correspondence (Haaland - Harned)), Box #151, Folder #151.9]
• Letter from LP to Raymond R. Kersey, Assistant Manager of the Illustration and Photoengraving Division, W. B. Saunders Company, RE: Gives his permission to use Figure 1 on page 206 from his article appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 37, 1951, which appeared in the 6^th edition of "Duncan's Diseases of Metabolism" by Dr. Philip K. Bondy. [Letter from LP to Kersey, 1969] [Letter from Kersey to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1967-1971), Box #203, Folder #203.3]
• Letter from LP to Ruth Brooks RE: Requests that she send $5,000 of his Chester Carlson Fund to the California Institute of Technology to be used for support of his research and notifies her of his plans to move to Stanford University the 1^st of July. [Letter from Brooks to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1969-1971), Box #43, Folder #43.1]
• Letter from LP to Stanley Schaefer, W. H. Freeman and Company, RE: Requests that Schaefer send him twelve copies of The Architecture of Molecules and twelve copies of the Fetschrift, to be used as presentation copies, and to send the bill to LP. [Letter from Schaefer to LP, 1, 1969] [Letter from LP to Schaefer, 2, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1960-1992, No Date), Box #440, Folder #440.10]
• Letter from LP to Wayne M. McCann. [Letter from McCann to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1968-1971), Box #261, Folder #261.2]

  April 21, 1969

  Mr. Wayne M. McCann

  183 Middlesex Avenue

  Metuchen, N. J. 08840

  Dear Mr. McCann:

  In answer to your letter, I may say that I am the only person who has ever received two undivided Nobel Prizes. I received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962 (awarded in 1963).

  Madame Marie Curie is the only other person to have received more than one Nobel Prize. She received, jointly with her husband, one-half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics (the other half being awarded to Becquerel, and she received the undivided Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1911.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP: jj

• Letter from Martha Church, Dean of the College, Chairman of the Centennial Program Committee, Wilson College, to LP & AHP RE: Thanks them for visiting Wilson College and describes the impact they had on the campus and the noticeable boost in morale. [Letter from LP to Church, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1966-1969), Box #78, Folder #78.4]