July
30, 1951
Letter from Linus Pauling to Sidney Weinbaum. August 2, 1951Pauling writes of the three papers he is presenting at the American Chemical Society 75th Anniversary Meeting in New York on proteins, the structure and properties of hemoglobin, and the nature of bonds with triple bond character that involve two pairs of pi electrons. He is writing an obituary for Science on Professor Sommerfeld. Linda Pauling called to ask him a mathematical question but Pauling did not think too much about it and liked Linda's answer better. Peter Pauling was hit by a drunk driver in Pauling's Lincoln so he was hoping to purchase a new car in New York and drive it back to Pasadena. View Transcript
Associated: Robert Corey, Linda Pauling, Peter Pauling, Arnold Sommerfeld, Science ID: corr433.6-lp-weinbaum-19510802 |
