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Letter from Linus Pauling to Max Perutz. Page 1. August 29, 1951

Letter from Linus Pauling to Max Perutz. August 29, 1951. Page 1 Larger Images / More Information. 1 p. View Transcript

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Letter from Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to LP RE: Thanks him for the booklet of Greenewalt’s and Conant’s papers presented at the Du Pont laboratory dedication. Explains he is going on vacation soon to spend some time with his son before he reports to the Navy, but hopes to see LP at the chemical meetings. [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1946-1952), Box #14.014, Folder #14.6]
Letter from LP to M. F. Perutz, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Perutz, Max: Correspondence), #307.1]

August 29, 1951

Dr. Max Perutz

Department of Physics

University of Cambridge

Cavendish Laboratory

Free School Lane

Cambridge

Dear Dr. Perutz:

I thank you for your letter of August 17. Professor Corey and I have been very pleased that you should have found the 1.5 Å spacing in fibrous proteins of the α-keratin type. In one of our papers we had mentioned it, as observed by Macarthur for porcupine quill tip. Your recognition of the presence of this reflection as a rather reliable indication of the presence of the 3.7-residue helix seems to me to be very important.

I am not at all sure that this helix is present in feather rachis. However, Professor Corey and I have pointed out in a short article that will appear in Nature that the absence of this reflection does not eliminate this helix, since the two chains proposed for the unit could be just at a phase with one another.

Professor Corey and I have found some new sheet structures—two new pleated sheets, which will be described in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and also another sheet of a new type, which we call a rippled sheet.

Sincerely yours,

LP:kh

Linus Pauling

P.S. We enjoyed Kendrew's visit very much. I wish that you could come to see us sometime.

Letter from LP to Prof. E.B. Wilson RE: Enclosed a manuscript entitled “Configuration of Polypeptide Chains with Favored Orientations around Single Bonds: Two New Pleated Sheets” By Prof. Corey and himself. [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Science, 1945-1951); Box #14.019, Folder #19.4]

Memo from . C. Watson to G. W. Beadle, LP, F. C. Lindvall, Ian Campbell, H. D. Smith, and R. F. Bacher, RE: Asks them to send him a list of their requests for reprints or other technical literature or information their Division has received in the last 3 or 4 years from the Soviet Union, its satellite countries, China, and Japan. Lists what information would be helpful. Handwritten note from Bea to LP: “We do not keep the requests and I have no way of knowing whom they have come from. We do have many foreigners on the list to whom we sent reprints available.” [Memo from LP to Watson, September 25, 1951] [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia: (California Institute of Technology: Administrative Files, 1938-1971.), Box #1.030, Folder #30.8]