Nobel Prize for Peace. Medal - Obverse. December 10, 1963
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Travel: Oslo, Norway

Activity Listings

  • Hotel bill: Grand Hotel, Oslo [Filed under LP Travel, Box #1.003, Folder 3.3] 
  • Itinerary: Arrive in Copenhagen at 8:10am. Leave Copenhagen at 9:35 am, arrive in Oslo at 10:40 am. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Materials re: Nobel Peace Prize, 1963), Box #1963h2, Folder #1963h2.2] 
  • Letter from Eugene F. Adiutori to LP RE: States that LP appears to be a man of action who isn’t afraid of the impossible. States that he wrote a similar letter to Dr. Wigner of Princeton and encloses his response which states that Wigner does not believe Adiutori’s claim. Informs that he can explain the cause of insatiability in boiling water reactors. Says he and LP are kindred spirits. Requests that LP listen to him and make up his own mind. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence), #14.2]                       
  • Letter from Kenneth Ostlund to LP RE: Asks LP for three autographs plus his autograph on a picture. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence, 1963), #300.25] 
  • Letter from Robert W. Everett, Jr., President, New Orleans Chapter America Humanist Association, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Discusses his thoughts on the connection between chemical imbalances in the body and emotional stress. Handwritten note by LP at top right: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.5]
  • Letter from Walter Gormly to LP RE: Requests evidence about a statement LP made that primitive man drank water from springs rich in mineral content (in this case with a fluoride level of one ppm, which is the level of fluoride in the New York drinking water). States that F.A. Arnold Jr., Director of the National Institute of Dental Research, U.S. Public Health Service has sent him a letter that no data pertaining to the safety of fluoride has been published. [Letter from LP to Gormly February 21, 1964] [Filed under LP Science: (Articles and correspondence re: the fluoridation of drinking water, 1938-1988). Box #10.006, Folder #6.4] 
  • Newspaper Clipping: “Impossible Professor,” Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer, by Ralph Dighton, December 8, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.23]
  • Newspaper Clipping: “Linus Pauling Promises Speech Shocker While Accepting His Second Nobel Prize,” by Ralph Dighton, Bridgeport (Connecticut) Sunday Post, December 8, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.26]
  • Newspaper Clipping: “Pauling Hints at Surprises in Oslo Speech on Tuesday,” by Ralph Dighton, Sacramento (California) Bee,  December 8, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.25]
  • Newspaper Clipping: “Pauling Predicts Shock In Nobel Acceptance,” by Ralph Dighton, Yakima (Washington) Herald, December 8, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.24]
  • Schedule: Arrival in Oslo at 10:40; private party (M. Lous Mohr) [Filed under LP Travel, Box #1.003, Folder 3.3]