Letter from Linus Pauling to Matthew Meselson. Page 1. July 18, 1951
Letter from Linus Pauling to Matthew Meselson. July 18, 1951. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

Activity Listings

  • Check from AHP to Caltech Alumni Association for $4.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, September 1950-December 1952), Box #4.021, Folder #21.2]
  • Letter from C. Sheldon Hart, Carleton College, to LP RE: Agrees that structure, in a broad sense, is a key to general chemistry. Inquires where LP buys his cork spheres. [Letter from LP to Hart, July 25, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1951), #166.2]
  • Letter from Charles A. Coulson, University of London King’s College, to LP RE: Agrees that it does not appear that there will be any conflicts between the talks they will give at the Journal of the American Chemical Society conference in September. [Letter from LP to Coulson, June 27, 1951] [Letter from LP to Coulson, July 20, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Coulson, Charles A.), #68.4]
  • Letter from G. F. Bell, Alcoa Mining Company, to LP RE: Thanks him for his recommendations, and says he will be ordering LP’s text, The Nature of the Chemical Bond. [Letter from LP to Bell, July 9, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1951), #37.18]
  • Letter from LP to Frank H. Dickey RE: Says that he does not know the results of the gel samples and that he expects the reprints of the protein structures soon. LP also congratulates him on his appointment to UC Berkeley. [Letter from Dickey to LP, July 8, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1951), #98.16]
  • Letter from LP to Frank Hovorka, Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Western Reserve University, RE: Thanks him for his letter regarding Morris Gippin. [Letter from Hovorka to LP, July 10, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1951), #140.15]
  • Letter from LP to James Winston RE: States that he too is not pleased with the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists but that he considers it necessary, and asks Winston to specify his grievances. [Letter from Winston to LP, July 11, 1951] [Letter from Winston to LP, July 23, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1951), #443.19]
  • Letter from LP to MacMillian Co. Ltd. RE: Says that he would like to subscribe to Nature and asks that he begin receiving issues in January 1951. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1951), #256.2]
  • Letter from LP to Morris Gippen RE: Offers his encouragement and logical reasoning as to why he has not been hired. Suggests that Gippen’s handicap is his attitude and that it is preventing him from securing a new position. [Letter from Gippen to LP, June 30, 1951] [Letter from Gippen to LP, July 29, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1951), #140.15]
  • Letter from LP to Prof. E.B. Wilson RE: Encloses a paper entitled “ On the Formal Expansion of Operator Functions in Terms of a Set of Basic Operations,” by Christopher Gregory. [Filed under LP Science:(National Academy of Sciences, 1945-1951); Box #14.019, Folder #19.4]
  • Letter from LP to Sir Eric Rideal, University of London, RE: Congratulates him on being knighted. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1951), #340.16]
  • Letter from Michel Magat, Laboratorie de Chimie Physique de la Faculté des Sciences de Paris, to LP RE: Says that his visa was refused so he cannot attend the International Congress or give the lectures in Pasadena. Magat asks LP to send reprints of the protein papers when he has them. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1951), #256.2]
  • Memo from A.H. Walter to LP RE: Encloses a copy of Task Order Number 6 under N123s-57251 for his files and requests his approval of it. Notifies him that it will probably be numerically designated Chemistry 31 once the Order is executed. [Memo from LP to Contracts Committee July 11, 1951] [Memo from LP to Walter July 20, 1951] [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1962), Box #14.031, Folder #31.5]
  • Memo from LP to Dr. S. Frankel RE: Discusses Frank Dickey’s plans for London, and states when he will be starting his duties as an instructor at U.C. Berkeley. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1951) #128.16]
  • Memo from Robert B. Corey, Caltech, to LP RE: Suggests that William Cochran work on improving the techniques of x-ray crystallography. States that Dr. Sturdivant believes that if he does not arrive until next spring, they will have a spectrometer for him to use. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Corey, Robert B.), #67.5]