Activity Listings
- Letter from LP to Dr. E. Bright Wilson, Jr. to LP RE: LP regrets to inform him that it won't be possible for him to go to the September meeting. LP is interested in Wilson's results with ketene. [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #438.5]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Niemann RE: LP agrees that his travel arrangements sound good. LP suggests that he remain in Europe until the fellowship year is nearly completed. [Niemann's letter: May 11, 1937] [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, Box #277.5]
- Letter from LP to Dr. W. G. Penney. [Filed under: P: Correspondence, Box #312.1]
May 19, 1937
Dr. W. G. Penney
Department of Mathematics
Royal College of Science
Imperial College of Science and Technology
South Kensington, London S.W.7., England
I omitted to mention in my letter that we had determined the carbon-carbon single bond distance in ethane and in many other hydrocarbons. In every case the [v]alue found is 1.54 Å to within the experimental error, about 0.02 Å. In ethane itself our value is 1.55 Å, the carbon-hydrogen distance being 1.09 ± 0.03 Å.
Sincerely yours,
Linus Pauling
LP:mrl
- Letter from LP to E. C. Barrett, Comptroller, C. I. T. RE: LP requests that a lump sum payment of $1200 be paid to Carl Niemann at he Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research on July 31, 1937 to cover his traveling expenses and one payment of $200 from his salary as promised by C. I. T. [LP Biographical: Academia Box 1.029, Folder 1]
- Letter from LP to Mr. Phillip A. Shaffer, Jr. RE: is glad to learn that his appointment has been made official, and asks that he be at Cornell around September 30th. [Shaffer's letter: 5*11*37] [Filed under: S: Correspondence Box #377.7]
- Letter from Warren Weaver, Director, The Natural Sciences-Rockefeller Foundation to LP RE: Weaver outlines several points from LP's grant request which he feels could profit by somewhat more extended and detailed consideration. [LP's reply to Weaver June 1, 1937] [LP Science Box 14.038, Folder 5]
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