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Major Events

  • In his work on the determination of crystal structures, Pauling moves from the silicate to the sulfide minerals. An early example of this change in interest is the paper he and L.O. Brockway publish on the crystal structure of chalcopyrite.
  • After lecturing at Berkeley in March, he travels to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he gives a series of lectures on chemistry and physics.
  • His important and influential paper on the electro-negativity scale is published in JACS (he would later wonder why he did not call it the "electropositivity scale").
  • On May 31, a day after Pauling returns from Cambridge, Massachusetts, his daughter Linda is born.
  • Pauling receives his first grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for a program of research in structural chemistry.
  • James Lynn Hoard, who completed a series of X-ray crystal-structure determinations under Pauling’s direction, receives his Ph.D. degree, as does Jack Sherman, who, besides a structure determination of the micas, did some calculations of atomic scattering factors for Pauling.
  • At a faculty meeting, Robert A. Millikan, citing the Depression, asks that the faculty vote to cut their salaries by 10%. Pauling, understanding the need for financial sacrifice, opposes Millikan’s action because he believes that only the Board of Trustees, not the faculty, has this power and responsibility.
  • In the fall, Pauling, who believes that noble-gas compounds can be made, gets some xenon for Don Yost, expecting that he will obtain, in reaction with fluorine, XeF6 or XeF8, but Yost, in what is called "the most unenthusiastic investigation any investigator ever carried out", does not find the compounds (later analysts, including Neil Bartlett who found the fluorides of xenon, believed that a fluoride of xenon was most likely there).
  • Pauling, still faithful to the Republicanism of his family, votes for Herbert Hoover (and not for Franklin D. Roosevelt) in the November elections.
  • Pauling meets and talks with Albert Einstein, who is at CIT for the winter months. Einstein attends a seminar by Pauling on the quantum mechanics of the chemical bond (Einstein claims to reporters that he did not understand the lecture).
Chronology by Robert Paradowski.

Travel

 Berkeley, CA (26)
 transit to Cambridge, MA (6)
 Cambridge, MA (43)
 transit to Pasadena, CA (5)
 Los Angeles, CA (4)
See the Paulings' activities in January 1932
See the Paulings' activities in January 1932

Snapshot

Ava Helen and Linda Pauling. Picture. 1932
Ava Helen and Linda Pauling. 1932. Larger Image / More Information

Statistics

  • 529 activity listings
  • 43 scanned documents
  • 48 full-text transcripts

Activity Listings - 1932 (No Date)

  • LP Research Notebook, RNB 02 RE: Notes and X-ray diffraction data–Mg2Pb [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 2: 138]
  • LP Research Notebook, RNB 07 RE: 1932 [?]: Uranyl compounds [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 7: 066
  • LP Research Notebook: 1932 [?]: Antimonyl compounds. [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 7: 067]
  • LP Research Notebook: 1932 [?]: Polyvanadates. [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 7: 068]
  • LP Research Notebook: Notes and X-ray diffraction data–BaHg12 [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 2: 139
  • LP Research Notebooks: 1932 [?]: Silica Gel. [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 7: 232-233]
  • LP Research Notebooks: 1932 [?]: Vanadates. [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 7: 069]
  • List of Chemistry Appropriations 1932-33 [LP Biographical: Academia Box 1.031, Folder 1]
  • Manuscript: Linus Pauling, "The Normal State of the Helium Molecule-Ions He2+ and He2++." [LP Manuscripts of Articles, Box 1932a.4]
  • Manuscript: Linus Pauling, “The Determination of the Structure of Crystals with X-Rays.” [LP Manuscripts of Articles, 1932a.3]
  • Photo: An unidentified woman [Pauline Pauling?] sitting outside, holding Linda Pauling. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #535] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.11]
  • Photo: Ava Helen Pauling holding Linda Pauling. Ava Helen wearing a striped blouse, the baby wearing a white dress. Photographer unknown. Black and white print, mounted in large folio. [Ship #801] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.10]
  • Photo: Close-up of Richard Morgan. “Richard Morgan; March 15, ‘32 / 1225" [Written in pencil]. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #1569] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.7]
  • Photo: Eighteen month-old Peter Pauling playing with an toy train. “Peter 1 ½ years 1932" Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #766] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.2]
  • Photo: Linus Pauling Jr. playing with Peter Pauling. Peter inside a playpen. “Bordphotograph, Hanns Teshira, D. Bremen, N. D. L.” “LP Jr?” Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #630] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.16]
  • Photo: Linus Pauling's sisters [?], one holding baby Linda, standing outside next to Linus Pauling. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #534] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.13]
  • Photo: Linus Pauling's sisters [?], standing outside with an unidentified man. The unidentified man holding baby Linda. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #533] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.14]
  • Photo: One-year old Peter Pauling playing with blocks. “Peter, 1932, 1 year” “G. Edwin Williams/ Pasadena”, black and white print. [Ship #765] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.1]
  • Photo: Peter Pauling holding a toy train. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #767] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.3]
  • Photo: Peter Pauling smiling. “Peter / 1 ½ years / August 10. 1932" Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #804] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.5]
  • Photo: Peter and Linus Pauling Jr. playing outside. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #529] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.17]
  • Photo: Peter, Linda, and Linus Pauling Jr. playing outside. Linus Jr. and Linda sitting in a toy wagon, Peter standing by the wagon. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #530] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.12]
  • Photo: Peter, Linda, and Linus Pauling Jr. posing for a family Christmas card. Linus Jr. holding his baby sister Linda. “Season's Greetings / Helen & Linus Pauling / Linus Jr., Peter & Linda / [Written on the back:] To the dear McMillano” “Linus Jr. 7 years 9 months / Peter 1 year 10 months / Linda six months” Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #1561, #582, #531] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.6]
  • Photo: Peter, Linda, and Linus Pauling Jr. posing for a family Christmas card. Linus Jr. holding his baby sister Linda. “Season's Greetings Helen & Linus Pauling, Linus Jr., Peter & Linda.” “1932” Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #3856] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.8]
  • Photo: Peter, Linda, and Linus Pauling Jr. sitting on a wagon. “Coast to Coast Racer” printed on the side. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #532] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.9]
  • Photo: The Pauling family. Linus Pauling's sisters [?] (Pauline [?] holding Linda), Linus, Peter, Linus Jr., and Ava Helen Pauling standing outside. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #537] [LP Photo Box, 1932i.15]
  • Publication: Written by LP and Don M. Yost: “The Additivity of the Energies of Normal Covalent Bonds.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 18, pp. 414-416. [LP Publications, 1932p.9]
  • Publication: Written by LP and J. H. Van Vleck: “The Theory of Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 54, pp. 4119-4121. [LP Publications, 1932p.13]
  • Publication: Written by LP and J. Sherman: “Screening Constants for many-electron atoms. The Calculating and Interpretation of X-ray term values, and the Calculation of Atomic Scattering Factors.” Z. Kristall, 81, pp. 1-29. [LP Publications, 1932p.5]
  • Publication: Written by LP and L. O. Brockway: “The Crystal Structure of Chalocopyrite, CuFeS2." Z. Kristall., A 82, pp. 188-194. [LP Publications, 1932p.6]
  • Publication: Written by LP and Richard M. Bozorth: “The crystal structure of magnesium platinocyanide heptahydrate.” Physical Review, 39, pp. 537-538. [LP Publications, 1932p.3]
  • Publication: Written by LP: “Interatomic Distances in Covalent Molecules and Resonance between Two or More Lewis Electronic Structures.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 18, pp. 293-297. [LP Publications, 1932p.8]
  • Publication: Written by LP: “The Determination of Crystal Structure by X-rays." Annual Survey of American Chemistry, 6, pp. 116-122. [LP Publications, 1932p.7]
  • Publication: Written by LP: “The Electronic Structure of the Normal Nitrous Oxide Molecule.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 18, pp. 498-499. [LP Publications, 1932p.10]
  • Publication: Written by LP: “The Nature of the Chemical Bond, IV. The Energy of Single Bonds and the Relative Electronegativity of Atoms.” Journal of the American Chemistry Society, 54, pp. 3570-3582. [LP Publications, 1932p.11]
  • Publication: Written by LP: “The nature of the chemical bond, III. The transition from one extreme bond type to another.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 54, pp. 988-1003. [LP Publications, 1932p.2]
  • Reprint: Asymptotische Integration der Differentialgelichung des Thomas-Fermischen Atoms, written by: Arnold Sommerfeld. [Filed under: Sommerfeld, Arnold: Reprints, correspondence, Box #366.4]
  • Reprint: Bernal, J. D. "Rotation of carbon chains in crystals." Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 83. [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 1]
  • Reprint: Bijvoet, J. M. and J. A. A. Ketelaar. "Molecular rotation in solid sodium nitrate." Journal of the American Chemical Society 54: 625. [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 1]
  • Reprint: Hendricks, S. B., E. Posnjak, F. C. Kracek. "Molecular rotation in the solid state. The variation of the crystal structure of ammonium nitrate with temperature." Journal of the American Chemical Society 54: 2766. [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 1]
  • Reprint: Vereinfachte Ableitung Des Thomas-Faktors, written by Arnold Sommerfeld. [Filed under: Sommerfeld, Arnold: Reprints, Correspondence, Box #366.4]
  • Reprint: Zuden Roterungen uber Kausalitat.by: Von M. V. Laue, Berlin. Filed under: LP Correspondence, Box #213.3]
  • Research Notes, Correspondence re: Magnetic moments, chemical combination and inter-atomic distances for assorted metallic compounds, LP and Maurice Huggins, 1931-1932. [LP Science Box 5.001, Folder 8]
  • Typescript: Linus Pauling, “Application to the Carnegie Institution of Washington for a Grant in Support of Researches in Structural Chemistry.” [LP Manuscripts of Articles, 1932a.2]
  • Typescript: Linus Pauling, “The Normal State of the Helium Molecule-Ions He2+ and He2++.” [LP Manuscripts of Articles, 1932a.4]