Letter from Linus Pauling to Warren Chernock. November 21, 1950. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from AHP to Linda Pauling for $75.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, September 1950-December 1952), Box #4.021, Folder #21.1]
• Check from LP to Beatrice Wulf for $200.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, September 1950-December 1952), Box #4.021, Folder #21.2]
• Letter from Harold A. Harper, PhD, Professor of Biology, University of San Francisco, to LP RE: Writes to inquire whether the oxypolygelatin is available for clinical study and would be interested to have any published references to it which he may suggest. [Letter from LP to Harold A. Harper November 28, 1950] [Filed under LP Science: (Materials re: Oxypolygelatin Blood Plasma Substitute, 1945-1951), Box #6.003, Folder #3.2]
• Letter from Ing Hans Siemonsen, Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, to LP RE: Includes a quotation from a work by Kapustinski, relating to LP’s electronegativity scale and discusses this subject further. [Letter from LP to Siemonsen, January 5, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1950), #378.4]
• Letter from Ivan G. Rice, American Chemical Society, to Members of the Board of Directors, Committee on Professional Training, and Council Policy Committee, American Chemical Society, RE: Writes to say that the preliminary program for the Spring Meeting of the ACS will be published in Chemical and Engineering News on December 25, 1950. Also requests travel plans in order to make the proper hotel reservations. [Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964), Box #14.006, Folder #6.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. R. E. Rundle, Iowa State College, RE: Writes that he will be glad to give a talk on a different subject and suggests “The Structure of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins,” which he has been working on with Dr. Corey and his collaborators. [Letter from Rundle to LP, December 1, 1950] [Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964), Box #14.006, Folder #6.3]
• Letter from LP to Professor Lawrence O. Brockway, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, RE: Gives the title of his lecture, “Structural Chemistry in Relation to Medicine.” [Letter from Brockway to LP, October 24, 1950] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1950s.28]
• Letter from R. J. W. Le Fevre , Chemistry Department, to LP RE: Tells LP that he has nominated him to be a distinguished visitor in the field of chemistry to the University of Sydney, in connection with the Fulbright Committee. States that this is an informal letter and that the nomination process will go forward. [Letter from LP to Le Fevre, December 1, 1950] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1950), #230.16]
• Letter from R.C. Guson, Chairman, Chemistry Section, National Academy of Sciences to Members of the Chemistry Section of the National Academy of Sciences RE: Requests that they vote for the persons they would like to elect to the Academy this year. Lists the four names and reminds them that the nominees need nearly unanimous approval of the whole chemistry section to be elected. Includes a copy of a Formal Nomination Ballot and vitae on John T. Edsall. Handwritten note in top right corner: “Ret’d 11/21/50.” [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1945-1951), Box #14.019, Folder #19.3]