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Major Events

  • Pauling is still on his low-protein diet (about 40 grams of protein per day), which he gets from eggs, milk, and cheese as well as from cereals, vegetables, and fruits (he will remain on this diet until the mid-1950s).
  • Pauling publishes his paper on atomic radii and interatomic distances in metals. He has made every calculation in this paper with his twenty-inch slide rule.
  • In May, Pauling receives the Theodore William Richards Medal of the Northeast Section of the American Chemical Society.
  • To help a fledgling West Coast publisher, Pauling brings out his textbook General Chemistry with W.H. Freeman and Company of San Francisco. It is the first book the house publishes, and it revolutionizes the teaching of college chemistry. It is immediately successful and brings the new company a great deal of prestige.
  • In the summer, Pauling travels to Long Island, New York to participate, with 25 other distinguished scientists, in a conference on the foundation of quantum mechanics. Linus and Ava Helen Pauling then fly to Europe to attend some international congresses, including the International Congress of Experimental Cytology, the International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and the Centenary Celebration of The Chemical Society of London.
  • On June 12, Pauling receives an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Cambridge.
  • Lloyd A. Jeffress is Hixon visiting professor at CIT for the 1947-1948 academic year (Pauling helps to arrange this appointment).
  • Linus Pauling, Jr. marries Anita Oser on September 20 in Pasadena. Anita Oser is the great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller and Cyrus Hall McCormick.
  • In November Pauling receives the Humphry Davy Medal of the Royal Society of London.
  • Because of research, administration of the division, and family problems, Pauling is forced to miss the first term at Oxford, but he is able to lecture during the winter and spring terms. He, Ava Helen, Peter, Linda, and Crellin leave from New York City on the Queen Mary on December 26, the day of a big blizzard.
  • In late December, while on board the Queen Mary, Pauling writes a pledge on the back of a cardboard sign that had announced one of his lectures vowing to make mention of the need for world peace in every lecture that he would give.
  • On this trip, Pauling meets Erwin Chargaff, who is a First Class passenger, while he is in Third Class. Chargaff tells him about his results from analyzing DNA from various plant and animal sources, in particular, that the ratios of adenine to thymine, and guanine to cytosine are always close to one. Pauling is not very interested in these results and does not make the connection of them to the structure of DNA.
Chronology by Robert Paradowski.

Travel

 New York (2)
 Princeton, NJ 
 Boston 
 New York (3)
 Indianapolis 
 New York 
 San Francisco 
 Portland, OR (4)
 Washington, D.C. (5)
 Boston (3)
 New York 
 New York (5)
 England (22)
 Stockholm (3)
 Copenhagen (3)
 Snäckgärdsbaden, Sweden 
 Visky, Czechoslovakia (2)
 Stockholm (4)
 England (15)
 New York 
 Ames, Iowa 
 New Haven, CT 
 Wilmington, DE 
See the Paulings' activities in January 1947
See the Paulings' activities in January 1947

Snapshot

Linus, Peter, Crellin, Linda and Ava Helen Pauling. Picture. 1947
Linus, Peter, Crellin, Linda and Ava Helen Pauling. 1947. Larger Image / More Information

Statistics

  • 2532 activity listings
  • 53 scanned documents
  • 41 full-text transcripts

Activity Listings - 1947 (No Date)

  • Article: “Grants and Awards”, Science, 1947. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.19]
  • Article: “Linus Pauling...”, [re: Oxford fellowship] Publication Unknown, 1947. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.7]
  • Bound Collection of Newspaper Clippings and Magazine Articles Received from Harold Oram: Newspaper Coverage of Princeton Statement, June 29, 1947 [Oram's handwriting] Also H-Bomb Linus Pauling [LP's handwriting]. *Note: Pauling manuscript ¾ through volume — Television Speech, KTTV channel 11, showing 7:30 & 10 PM, LA. Tues. Feb. 21, 1950. [re: atomic and hydrogen bombs] [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Early Atomic Energy Materials), Box #3.021, Folder #21.3]
  • Document listing the requirements for the Guggenheim Fellowship. Lists the 1947 recipients. [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1946-1952: Box #14.014 Folder #14.2]
  • Galley Proof: Chemical Achievement and Hope for the Future [Filed under LP Manuscripts, 1947a.7]
  • General Chemistry: An Introduction to Descriptive Chemistry and Modern Chemical Theory. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1947, 618 pp. Written by: Linus Pauling, with illustrations by Roger Hayward. [Filed under: 1947p.4]
  • Handwritten Notes. RE: Immunological Reactions Between Films of Antigen and Antibody Molecules by Alexander Rothen. [Filed under LP Science: Materials re: Antibody and Antigen Research; the Nature of Serological Reactions, 1940-1947, 1950-1952, 1973, 1986: Box #7.001 Folder #1.6]
  • Handwritten Notes. RE: On the Mechanism of Enzymatic Activity II. by Alexander Rothen. [Filed under LP Science: Materials re: Antibody and Antigen Research; the Nature of Serological Reactions, 1940-1947, 1950-1952, 1973, 1986: Box #7.001 Folder #1.6]
  • Information Return for Calendar Year 1947 for LP From Cornell University Press. Rents and Royalties $1934.55 [Filed under LP Biographical: Business & Financial, Tax Documents, 1930-1956: box #4.001, folder 1.4]
  • Information Return for Calendar Year 1947 for LP From Eli Lilly & Company. Rents and Royalties $1934.55 [Filed under LP Biographical: Business & Financial, Tax Documents, 1930-1956: box #4.001, folder 1.4]
  • LP Notes to Self RE: Theory of catalytic activity and work of Szent-Gyorgyi, 1947. [Filed under: RNB 9R: Addendum]
  • LP's notes on blue paper. Handwritten: “Vesujer, Nun. [?] P. J. See ‘Tata.'” [Filed under LP Correspondence: #427.7]
  • List (undated) of mail forwarded from Cal Tech to Balliol College from Beatrice Wulf to Priscilla Roth. (Note in blue ink: “Recd. OK - P.R.”) [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Oxford University, [re: Eastman professorship and residency in Oxford] 1946-1948), #299.8]
  • Magazine Ad. for Words and Phrases from West Publishing Co. with “Linus Pauling” written at the top in black pen. [Filed under LP Correspondence: 439.5]
  • Magazine Article, Correspondence: “Let us now Praise Famous Men”, Nickel Narratives, New York [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings, 1947n.33]
  • Magazine Article: “Linus Pauling and George Beadle...”, [re: honorary doctorates from Yale] Science, 1947. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.17]
  • Memo (undated) from Beatrice Wulf to LP RE: Informs him that a large supply of the stationary and envelopes has been received, asks him whether he wants some sent on to him or if the ACS has already done so, and says the reprints are being sent by air mail and normal mail. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Oxford University, [re: Eastman professorship and residency in Oxford] 1946-1948), #299.8]
  • Newsletter: “Plea for Peace”, People's Peace, 1947. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.7]
  • Newspaper Clipping: “Announce award to Dr. Linus Pauling”, Publication Unknown, 1947. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: box #6.005, Folder 5.11]
  • Newspaper Clipping: “Atom Energy to Distill Ocean Water Forecast”, Publication Unknown, 1947. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.10]
  • Newspaper Clipping: “Atom Expert to Speak Here Wednesday”, Publication Unknown, 1947. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.18]
  • Newspaper Clipping: “Atomic Energy”, Publication Unknown, 1947. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.19]
  • Newspaper Clipping: “Atomic Radiation in Various Fields and Role of the Scientist Stressed at Symposium”, Publication Unknown, 1947. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.18]
  • Newspaper Clipping: “Caltech Professor Going to Oxford”, Publication Unknown, 1947. [?] [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.7]
  • Newspaper Clipping: “Caltech Scientist's Son to Wed Rockefeller, McCormick Scion”, Publication Unknown [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings, 1947n.32]
  • Newspaper Clipping: “Dr. Linus Pauling will be Speaker”, Publication Unknown, 1947. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.17]
  • Newspaper Clipping: “Linus Pauling Wins London's ‘Davy Medal'”, Publication Unknown, 1947. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.19]
  • Newspaper Clipping: “Public to Hear Atom Scientists”, Publication Unknown, 1947. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.20]
  • Newspaper Clipping: “The Faraday Lecture”, Publication Unknown, 1947. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.7]
  • Newspaper Clipping: “Use of Uranium Energy in Place of Coal Foreseen”, Publication Unknown, 1947. [?] [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.7]
  • Pamphlet: “A Statement of Purpose by the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists”, 1947. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.18]
  • Pay Stubs for Sidney Weinbaum dating from 1947 to 1948 [Filed under LP Correspondence: 433.4]
  • Photo: A Pauling Oxygen Meter - Model K, serial No.3. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.23]
  • Photo: A picnic with the Paulings. Left bench: Linus Pauling Crellin Pauling, Linus Pauling Jr. and Linda Pauling. Outdoor family photo. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.2]
  • Photo: Crellin Pauling standing outside of a brick house, shirtless. Crellin arranging flowers in a large vase. “Crel and my graduation flowers / 1947" Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #1543] [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.18]
  • Photo: Group of unidentified men and women posing together in front of an unfinished building. “Photo taken in front of Hers lab, under cons fr. (Now finished) Copenhagen” “Staff of the Inst. For Theor. Phys. Copenhagen Fall 1947" “M. Horowitz (sp. 3) Paris, Jens Lindhard and Torbeen Huus - grad students, Madsen (?), Aage Bohr, Dr. Rosenthal, Dr. J Koch, Prof. C Miller, Prof Jacobsen, Prof Bohr, Selienez [?] Dewitt; now Mrs. Bryce, Mlle. Cecile Morette-Paris, Frer Schultz (grey), Robt. Plotyman, D P Shoemaker” Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.27]
  • Photo: Group of unidentified men and women posing together in front of an unfinished building. “Photo taken in front of Hers lab, under cons fr. (Now finished) Copenhagen” “Staff of the Inst. For Theoretical Phys. Copenhagen Fall 1947" “M. Horowitz (sp. 3) Paris, Jens Lindhard and Torbeen Huus - grad students, Madsen (?), Aage Bohr, Dr. Rosenthal, Dr. J Koch, Prof. C Miller, Prof Jacobsen, Prof Bohr, Selienez [?] Dewitt; now Mrs. Bryce, Mlle. Cecile Morette-Paris, Frer Schultz (grey), Robt. Plotyman, D P Shoemaker” Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.10]
  • Photo: Linda and Crellin Pauling dressed formally for a studio portrait. “Fall 1947" Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #736] [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.13]
  • Photo: Linus Pauling (far left) receiving the Richards Medal. An unidentified man speaking at a podium. “Richards Medal 1947" Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #2043] [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.19]
  • Photo: Linus Pauling Jr. and Anita Oser cutting their wedding cake together. “J4709-11g [in pencil]/ LP Jr/Anita wedding 1947” Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #3838] [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.6]
  • Photo: Linus Pauling Jr., Linus Pauling, Anita Oser, Ava Helen Pauling, Crellin Pauling, and unidentified individuals. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.1]
  • Photo: Linus Pauling and Arthur Hill standing in a laboratory. “Yale – Silliman Lecture” “LP + Arthur Hill” Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #2042] [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.25]
  • Photo: Linus Pauling and Arthur Hill standing in a laboratory. “Yale – Silliman Lecture” “LP + Arthur Hill” Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #2042] [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.8]
  • Photo: Linus Pauling experimenting in his lab at Cal Tech. “LP preparing freshman lecture, C.I.T., 1947, return to Ava Helen Pauling; Cal Tech”. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #1258] [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.16]
  • Photo: Linus Pauling receiving the Richards Medal. “Richards Medal 1947" Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #2044] [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.20]
  • Photo: Linus Pauling speaking at the 1947 Richards Medal ceremony. “Richards Medal 1947" Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #2045] [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.21]
  • Photo: Linus Pauling standing at a blackboard, pointing at a diagram of a molecule. “Richards Medal 1947" Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #2046] [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.22]
  • Photo: Linus, Peter, Crellin, Linda, and Ava Helen Pauling dressed formally for a family portrait. “Fall 1947" Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #735] [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.12]
  • Photo: Peter Pauling sitting in the frame of a Model-T car. “Peter Pauling / 1947" Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #737] [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.14]
  • Photo: Peter Pauling, Ava Helen Pauling, Linus Pauling, Crellin Pauling, Linus Pauling Jr. and Linda Pauling. Outdoor family photo. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1947i.3]
  • Promotional Flyer: “Announcing Educational Book Publishing by W.H. Freeman and Company”, [includes “General Chemistry” by LP] 1947. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.12]
  • Publication: The University of Hawaii, 1907-1947. [Filed under Newspaper Clippings, re: University of Hawaii Incident, 1951: Box #2.008, Folder 8.29]
  • Report Card for Crellin Pauling for Grade 4 at Polytechnic Elementary and Junior High School. 1946-47. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal & Family, Family Correspondence: Edward Crellin Pauling. 1930-1995, No Date: Box #5.048, Folder 48.1]
  • Report on “Vitamin E in Heart Disease.” By Wilfred Shute, Evan Shute, and Arthur Vogelsang. [Filed under LP Science: Orthomolecular medicine materials related to vitamin E and heart disease, 1947-1974: Box #11.074 Folder #74.1]
  • Russian translation: The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals: An Introduction to Modern Structural Chemistry [Priroda Khimiscesko Svyazi. Moscow: Gosudarstevennoe Nauchno-Tekhinicheskoe Izdatel'stvo Khimicheskoi Literatury, 1947, 440 pp.] [Filed under: LP Publications: 1940p.4]
  • The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, First Report (1947-1949) [Filed under LP Science: Halen Hay Whitney Foundation - Scientific Advisory Committee: Publications and Activities, 1947-1959: Box #15.001 Folder #15.1]
  • The nature of the bonds in metals and intermetallic compounds. [Talk given before Section 1 of 11th International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry, London, July 17-24, 1947] Proc. Intern. Congr. Pure and Applied Chem. (London) 11 (1947): 249-257. Written by: LP. [Filed under: LP Publications, 1947p.1]
  • US Individual Income Tax Return for Calendar Year 1947 for LP and AHP. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business & Financial, Tax Documents, 1930-1956: box #4.001, folder 1.4]
  • US Individual Income Tax Return for Calendar Year 1947 for LP. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business & Financial, Tax Documents, 1930-1956: box #4.001, folder 1.4]
  • Undated Letter from Manfred Curry to LP RE: Informs LP that he can loan the labs at Cal Tech some instruments for experimental purposes. [Letter from LP to Curry October 23, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box: #74.15, file:(C: Correspondence, 1946)]
  • United Nations Atomic Energy Commission Report. "Functions of the International Agency in Relation to Processing and Purification of Source Material." LP Peace: Box 3.017, Folder 17.3
  • Withholding Statement for LP for 1947 from CIT. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business & Financial, Tax Documents, 1930-1956: box #4.001, folder 1.4]
  • Withholding Statement for LP from United States Rubber Company for 1946. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business & Financial, Tax Documents, 1930-1956: box #4.001, folder 1.4]
  • “Centennial of the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University.” Dictating and Recording Co., producer. 6 plastic records. [Filed under LP Audio-Visual: 1947v.1]