Activity Listings
- Check from AHP to Sue Perry for $20.00. [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.B. Kenneth Mees, Eastman Kodak Company, to LP, RE: Points out an error on page 557 of LP’s book “College Chemistry.” Handwritten note by LP: “Ansd.” [Letter from LP to Mees, October 18, 1951] [Filed under LP Personal Safe, Drawer #2, Folder #2.009]
- Letter from Charles W. Tucker, Jr., Metallurgy Section, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, General Electric Company, RE: Says that he made an oversight in the misprint of the date and did not intend to misrepresent any author’s work. [Letter from LP to Tucker, October 8, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1951), #410.6]
- Letter from F. J. Toole, Department of Chemistry, University of New Brunswick, RE: Says that since sending his telegram the President has contacted Harlow Shapely, and he hopes LP could send a short note to further convince him. [Wire Message from Toole to LP, October 5, 1951 and Letter from LP to Toole, October 12, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Toole, Frank J.), #407.8]
- Letter from LP to F. J. Toole, Department of Chemistry, University of New Brunswick, RE: Says that he wrote to Harlow Shapely encouraging him to accept the invitation to give the Priestman Memorial Lectures. Discusses his recent trip with AHP. States that he will return the books, Last and First Men, and The Diplomats, to Toole under separate cover and thanks him for letting him borrow the books. [Wire Message from Toole to LP, October 5, 1951 and Letter from Toole to LP, October 23, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Toole, Frank J.), #407.8]
- Letter from LP to H. H. Inhoffen, RE: Invites Inhoffen to give a seminar when he is next in the U.S. [Letter from Inhoffen to LP, October 27, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (I: Correspondence, 1951), #185.12]
- Letter from LP to Harlow Shapley, Harvard University, RE: Urges him to accept the invitation to deliver the first Priestman Memorial Lectures at the University of New Brunswick. [Letter from Shapley to LP, October 16, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Shapley, Harlow), #362.1]
- Letter from LP to Harold P. Klug, Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, RE: Regretfully declines the invitation to attend the conference because he will be in Princeton at the time. [Letter from Klug to LP, October 9, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Klug, Harold P.), #199.3]
- Letter from LP to Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, RE: Responds to his questions about Corson’s mental state and divorce. Informs him that he and AHP are most likely going to India and agrees that it probably would not be a good idea for him to serve on the committee; suggests that perhaps Beadle will be able to take his place. [Letter from Moe to LP, October 8, 1951, Letter from Moe to LP, October 17, 1951] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1946-1952), Box #14.014, Folder #14.6]
- Letter from LP to Herbert Harned, Sterling Chemistry University, New Haven, RE: States that AHP will not be joining him in New Haven and that he will arrive on Sunday. [Note from Harned to LP, October 5, 1951 and Letter from LP to Harned, October 19, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Harned Herbert), #151.13]
- Letter from LP to K. C. Young, Executive Secretary, San Diego County Medical Society, RE: States that it was a pleasure to speak before them. Estimates his expenses to be $25.00. Wishes him success in his new position. [Letter from Young to LP, October 10, 1951] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1951s.17]
- Letter from LP to W. H. Freeman, RE: Gives his critique of the Wiberg book, stating that it is very poor and not worth publishing. He then includes a 4-page discussion which identifies errors and strongly discourages them from publishing a translation. [Letter from LP to Schaefer, October 22, 1951, Letter from Freeman to LP, October 22, 1951 and Letter from Freeman to LP, October 8, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1951), #439.9]
- Letter from William E. Vaughan, Shell Development Company, to LP, RE: States that he enjoyed serving on the Award Committee which selected LP as the first recipient of the Gilbert Newton Lewis Medal. States that he looks forward to seeing LP and AHP at the awards ceremony on November 7. Asks LP to send them a portrait for publicity purposes. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1951s.19]
- Magazine Reprint: “Arnold Sommerfeld: 1868-1951”, Science, Vol. 114, No. 2963, October 12, 1951. [Filed under LP Biographical: Scrapbooks, 1951-1955: Box #6.006, Folder #6.14]
- Memo from LP to Harvey Itano, Caltech. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Burch, George E.), #33.8]
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INTEROFFICE MEMO.
To Dr. Itano FROM Linus Pauling DATE 10/12/51
SUBJECT
Would you want to make any specific suggestion to Dr. Burch about the use of sodium nitrite in treating sickle cell patients?
Also, I judge that you do not want any more sickle cell blood, sent up by Dr. Burch. If you do, let me know.
- Memorial of Arnold Sommerfeld published in Experientia, Vol. VII/12, 1951 - p. 477. Written in German. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Sommerfeld, Arnold: Biographical Information, 1951), #366.2]
- Newspaper Clipping: “Does a Goat Smell” Advertisement for Whisk. [Filed under LP Science: (Assorted Materials re: Other Fields of Science), Box #10.008, Folder #8.3]
- Note from R. P. Mitra, Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, to LP, RE: Asks LP to confirm that he is visiting India and shares that he has been made a professor of chemistry at the university. Encloses a reprint of a letter about him that was in a magazine. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1951), #256.2]
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