Activity Listings
- Cable to Angewandte Chemie from LP RE: Gives permission to publish Nobel address. [Filed under LP Awards: 1954h3.27]
- Check frm AHP to Alpha Chi Sigma for $10.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
- Check from AHP to American Indian Fund for $10.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
- Check from AHP to Henri Bendel Inc for$1,768.10. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
- Check from AHP to I.F. Stone's Weekly for $5.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
- Check from AHP to Les Claypool's Free Press for $4.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
- Check from AHP to Ray Christiansen for $1.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
- Check from AHP to Southwest Museums for $6.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
- Check from AHP to The Cal-Tech Alumni Fund for $15.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
- Letter from Bernard M. Goldstein to LP RE: Requests a copy of the text of LP's speech regarding the dangers of hydrogen bomb fallout. [Letter from LP to Goldstein March 31, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1936-1956)), #140.19]
- Letter from LP to David W. Bailey, Secretary, President and Fellows of Harvard College, RE: Accepts appointment as John M. Prather Lecturer in Biology at Harvard College, for the second half of the academic year 1954-1955. [Letter from Bailey to LP March 7, 1955] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1955s.5]
- Letter from LP to Dr. C. Lalor Burdick. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1955-1957), #38.1]
21 March 1955
Dr. C. Lalor Burdick
6545 Nemours Building
Wilmington, Delaware
Dear Dr. Burdick:
Your letter of 16 December has just turned up; it has been on my desk, awaiting my return from the trip that my wife and I made around the world after our stay in Stockholm. We spent six weeks in India and three weeks in Japan, as well as visiting some other countries for shorter periods.
The ceremonies in Stockholm were fine. It was a pleasure for me to get acquainted with Mr. Brittingham. The Swedes seem to appreciate the work that he is doing, in enabling young people to spend some time in another country.
I too have felt that it would have been fine if Dr. Noyes could have lived longer, and to have seen that the Swedish Academy supports his judgment about staff appointments at C.I.T.
I should like to ask you to give me some information - I hope that you can take time to think about the situation in Pasadena forty years ago, and to write an account of it for me, I have decided to take as the subject of an address that I am to give to the American Crystallographic Association when it meets in Pasadena in June the history of x-ray crystallography in the California Institute of Technology. I think that it may be that the work that you and Ellis did on chal-copyrite is the first x-ray crystal structure determination made in the United States, but I am not sure about this. Also, I do not know details of the story. Could you tell me how it came about that you carried out this work, and that Ellis was interested in it. Who made the x-ray spectrometer that was in the laboratory when I arrived in 1922? How did Roscoe Dickinson happen to begin work in this field? Were other people than you
Dr. Burdick
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Ellis, and Dickinson involved in the work before 1921? I think that the Institute should have an account of these early events, and I hope that you will write it.
Sincerely yours,
Linus Pauling:W
- Letter from Leonora N. Bilger, Senior Professor of Chemistry, University of Hawaii, to LP RE: In the last several years, U of H's chemistry graduates have been accepted to graduate programs at mainland universities. The university was accredited by the American Chemical Society. To maintain this status, they must stay informed of the practices and procedures of other universities on the mainland. Requests that LP fill out the enclosed questionnaire on the physical chemistry course. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Individual Correspondence. (Beach - Birge)), #27.17]
- Letter from Professor Henry J. Bowldon, Physics Dept., Wayne University, to LP RE: Thanks LP for permission to join Caltech group. Unfortunately, did not receive the Merck Fellowship this year, but might apply for next year. Might instead take a sabbatical leave when eligible. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1955-1957), #38.1]
- Letter from Professor P.P. Ewald, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, to LP RE: Looks forward to having LP chair the meeting of the Symposium on April 11 and give a lecture that evening. Requests that LP send the title of his speech. [Letter from Wulf to Ewald December 29, 1954, Letter from LP to Ewald March 23, 1955] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1955s.4]
- Letter from W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman & Co., to LP RE: Thanks LP for his letter commenting on the copy-editing of the manuscript. Considering the strenuous conditions under which Stan had to prepare the manuscript, Freeman is surprised that LP found as little fault in it as he did. Freeman will be at Caltech on March 29 and 30. Hopes to see LP on the 29th. If not, looks forward to seeing LP and AHP on April 1 in San Francisco. [Telegram from LP to Freeman March 16, 1955, Letter from LP to Schaefer March 24, 1955] [Filed under LP Books: (College Chemistry: An Introductory Textbook of General Chemistry, Second Edition), #1955b.2]
- Typescript: Caltech News Bureau Press Release RE: LP and AHP's trip around the world. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1955a.3]
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