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Letter from Linus Pauling to Hans Kuhn. Page 1. May 11, 1953

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AHP writes cheque to: Linda Pauling amount: $100.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
Letter from Dr. Wyman to LP RE: writes of several people's interests in his coming to France as a visiting professor. Assures LP that his visit will be sufficiently financed through several means. [Letter from Dr. Wyman to LP April 17, 1953, letter of response from LP to Dr. Wyman June 1, 1953].
Letter from E. O. Bunim of Linde Air Products Company to LP RE: writes that they were glad that he could visit their laboratory. They are sending him samples of cyclopentadienyl metal derivatives as he suggested. Thanks LP for offering to have the work done with these samples. [Filed under L: Correspondence 1953, Box #230, Folder #19]
Letter from LP to AHP RE: Writes that his lecture on hemoglobin was successful. He also relates that he is going to attempt to go to Bethlehem on Christmas Eve, but he may not be successful due to the Israel stamp in his visa. [Filed under LP Safe: Box #1.021, Folder #21.7]

Thurs. 6 PM.

Dearest love:

I leave in a few minutes for Jerusalem- the Prime Minister is giving a dinner- then to the airport, and at 11 PM on to London.

My lectures were successful. I presided this morning when Bohr, his son Aage [?], + two others spoke. My last lecture, on hemoglobin, was this afternoon.

The Hebrew University will, I think, invite us for the week Christmas to New Year, + and I think that we should come, after our week in Greece. Samuel says that we should try to go to Bethlehem on Christmas Eve- it is in Arab territory, and we may well not succeed, even it the Embassy intercedes, because our passport has an Israel visa stamped on it.

Schmidt has been censored because he drove me back from Jerusalem at night- we passed no cars but a couple of police cars- the road is near the border, and there is danger from marauding bands. I think that we'll have a

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police escort tonight.

Much love from your

Paddy

P.S. 4 letters arrived.

Letter from LP to Mr. Tomoji Tanaka RE: writes that he has read Mr. Tanaka's reports 3, 4 and 5. Unfortunately he is not able to understand or follow any of his manuscripts and still feels that the existing theory of atomic spectra seems to be satisfactory as it is. [Letters and manuscripts from Mr. Tanaka to LP March 20, 1953, April 8, 1953, April 30, 1953] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #410, Folder #18].
Letter from LP to Prof. Hans Kuhn. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #199, Folder #14]

11 May 1953

Prof. Hans Kuhn

The University

Marburg, Germany

Dear Hans:

I am writing in part to ask how you are getting along in your new job. I hope that everything is going along well with you.

My wife and I expect to be in Germany this summer. We are flying to Tubingen about 1 July, and are to stay in Germany for 25 days. I am to give some talks on the structure of proteins, in medical schools. At present we plan to visit Tubingen, Heidelberg, perhaps Munich, Hemburg, and Kiel. We are going on to Sweden on 25 July.

I have just written an article describing a new theory of ferromagnetism. In thinking about this subject I remembered the calculations that you made, on the strength of dsp hybrid orbitals. As I recall, you calculated the strengths of successive orthogonal orbitals, and found values 3.000 for the first three, and then somewhat lower values, with a rapid drop from 6 to 7. Have you prepared these calculations for publication? I should like to know what the values are that you found for the strengths of the successive orbitals, and also I should like to know whether you are planning to publish the work.

With best regards, I am

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling:W

Speech by LP on Early History of Protein Structure, Conference on the Structure of Proteins, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1953s.7]