May 4, 1937
Dr. Robert B. Corey
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
66th street and York Avenue
New York, New York
Dear Dr. Corey:
I would be very glad indeed to have you spend the year in Pasadena under the conditions
mentioned in your letter. The Institute would give you an appointment as Research
Fellow, without stipend, and would permit the free use of the apparatus and other
facilities of our laboratory. On the other hand, I feel that it is my duty to tell
you that so far as I can tell, there would be no possibility for you to be added to
the staff at the end of the year.
We have available here apparatus for the preparation of Laue photographs and oscillation
and rotation photographs, and a large spectrometer constructed by Dr. Sturdivant which
has not yet been put in operation. Apparatus which we do not have and which you might
well need for your work would include a Weissenberg camera, a simple spectrometer
for the rapid measurement of intensities, special apparatus for taking powder photographs,
etc. I would recommend that you bring with you apparatus of this type which you
think is needed for your own work.
I shall be at Cornell from the end of September to the first of February. During
this period Dr. J. H. Sturdivant will be in charge of the crystal structure laboratory
and will present for the graduate students a course in crystal structure analysis.
If you do decide to spend the year here, it might be good for you to plan to arrive
before the 20th of September, in order that you may get settled in the laboratory
before I leave for the East.
With best regards, I am
Sincerely yours,
Linus Pauling
LP:mrl
