January 29, 1937

Professor L. J. Henderson

Fatigue Laboratory, Harvard Business School

Soldiers Field P. O.

Boston, Massachusetts

Dear Professor Henderson:

Professor E. Bright Wilson, Jr., has told me that he is recommending Dr. Fred Stitt for membership in the Society of Fellows.

Dr. Stitt was born September 23, 1911, at Butler, Pennsylvania. He took the degrees of B.S. in Chem. Eng. in 1932 at Carnegie Institute of Technology, M. S. in Chemistry at the same institution, and Ph. D. in Chemistry in 1936 at California Institute of Technology. His major field was physical chemistry and his minor mathematics. As a graduate student he worked on the Raman spectra of silicon componds under the supervision of Professor Don M. Yost and on the kinetics of argentic nitrate solution with Professor Arthur A. Noyes. At present he is acting as Research Fellow in connection with the magnetic investigation of hemoglobin and its derivatives being carried on under my direction with the aid of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, and he is also assisting me in my graduate course on quantum mechanics and its applications to chemistry.

Dr. Stitt is to be classed among the very best whom we have had here as graduate students. He has exceptional ability both as an experimental investigator and along theoretical lines, his work being characterized by thoroughness and attention to detail as well as by careful and intelligent planning. He is very well prepared to carry on independent research on the spectra and structure of polyatomic molecules, and I feel confidant that he would profit by the opportunity of working in association with Wilson, Kistiakowski, and Van Vleck at Harvard and that he would make a significant contribution to the development of this field. I should be glad to have Dr. Stitt continue his researches here, and in case that he is not elected to the Society he will remain as Research Fellow here; I feel, however, that he is especially fitted for fellowship in the Society.

A list of Stitt's publications and manuscripts prepared for publication is enclosed.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling

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