6 July 1954

Mrs. Yvonne G. Bolz

Biological and Medical Sciences

National Science Foundation

Washington 25, D.C.

928

Dear Mrs. Bolz:

In your letter of 15 April 1954, relating to my application to the National Science Foundation for a grant in support of research on configurations of polypeptide chains in proteins, you ask me to state what support I am receiving from other organizations for this or any other research projects.

I am interested in a number of research projects, and as Director of the Gates and Crellin Laboratories of Chemistry and Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the California Institute of Technology I take some part in much of the work that is done here. Much of this research is supported from the funds of the California Institute of Technology.

I judge that you want to have the titles of projects, sources, amounts, and duration of financial support for grants made to the California Institute of Technology in which I am designated as official investigator or responsible investigator. These grants and contracts are the following:

National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, to investigate plant and animal viruses (both crystalline and non-crystalline) by means of x-ray diffraction techniques with the object of obtaining direct physical evidence of their composition, structure, and molecular configuration. One year. $22,700. 1 July 1954 through 30 June 1955. (Continuation of previous support.)

Office of Naval Research, to investigate the structure and properties of proteins and synthetic polypeptides. Two years. $50,000. 1 December 1954 through 30 November 1956. (Continuation of present support.)

Army Medical Corps, for chemical studies of Oxypolygelatin and other plasma expanders. 1 June 1953 through 30 September 1954. $25,002. (Continuation of previous support from Public Health Service.)

Office of Naval Research, to investigate the structure of metals and intermetallic compounds. 18 months. $18,000. 1 December 1954 through 31 May 1956. (Continuation of present support.)

The following application has been made and action on it is still pending:

Public Health Service, to investigate the chemistry of blood. One year. $8,640. 1 November through 31 October 1955.

If you wish further information about these grants, please write to me.

Sincerely yours,

Dictated by Linus Pauling

Signed in his absence:W