Letter from Linus Pauling to Charles Degard. January 12, 1939. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Letter from LP to Charles Degard and wife. [Degard's reply February 8, 1939] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #91, Folder #91.1]

  January 12, 1939

  Dr. Ch. Degard

  202 Avenue Charles Woeste

  Gette-Brussels

  Belgium

  Dear Dr. and Mrs. Degard:

  My wife and I were very pleased to receive your letter, and we extend to you our best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year.

  We have seen busy for some time with plans and supervising the construction of our new house, which is being built at the foot of Mt. Wilson, five miles from the Institute. We shall move into it in two months, and we hope that some time we shall have the pleasure of entertaining you there.

  Dr. Schomaker has been so busy with the moving of the electron diffraction apparatus to our new building that he has not yet prepared his work on the radial distribution method for publication. I think that it would be wise for him to write a short account of the revised radial distribution method for publication in the Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences, in joint authorship with you. He would then publish separately a more detailed discuss ion of his own work with reference to your work. I have been very pleased with the important contributions which you and he have made to the development of the radial distribution method. I am looking forward to hearing from you about the progress of your work.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP/jr

• Letter from LP to Dr. and Mrs. Degard RE: LP suggests that Degard and Dr. Schomaker have joint authorship of the work done with the revised radial distribution method for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #91, Folder #91.1]
• Letter from LP to Hubert M. James, Purdue University RE: LP forgot to put the exponents on x and z in his letter to James requesting properties of the H2 wave function. They are: x2 and z2. [James' letter January 10, 1939; LP's next letter to James January 31, 1939] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #192, Folder #192.6]
• Letter from LP to Lawrence O. Brockway, University of Michigan RE: LP has decided not to attend the Baltimore meeting of the A. C. S. and suggests Schomaker be invited in his stead. LP updates him on electron diffraction work in the new laboratory, the construction of his house and the publication of The Nature of the Chemical Bond in which there are many references to Brockway. [Brockway's reply January 17, 1939] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #31, Folder #31.11]
• Letter from LP to W. A. Noyes Jr. RE: Informs Noyes that J. Norton Wilson has become interested in the interpretation of dielectronic constant values of polar liquids. LP suggests that his work would be suitable for publication in Chemical Reviews and recommends that he be invited to do so. [Noyes' reply: January 16, 1939] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #279, Folder #279.5]
• Letter from LP to Warren Weaver, Director, The Natural Sciences-Rockefeller Foundation RE: LP thanks Weaver for granting Millikan's request that the Rockefeller budget be increased from $60,000 to $65,000 for 1938-39. LP has still not found an organic chemist to hire. [Filed under LP Science: Box #14.038, Folder #38.7]
• Letter from LP to Warren Weaver, Director, The Natural Sciences-Rockefeller Foundation RE: LP would like Landsteiner to come to C. I. T. upon his retirement from the Rockefeller Foundation to do unsalaried research and wonders whether the Foundation could provide a grant to cover his research expenses. [Filed under LP Science: Box #14.038, Folder #38.7]
• Letter from M. C. Neuberger, Vienna to LP RE: Requesting LP send a recommendation for him to C. E. Fawsitt, University of Sydney. [LP's reply February 10, 1939] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #287, Folder #287.6]
• Letter from M. C. Neuburger to LP RE: Asks LP to please send a letter of recommendation to Professor C. E. Fawsitt, Head of the Department of Chemistry, University of Sydney. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #287, Folder #287.6]
• Letter from W. A. Noyes to Professors Lind and LP RE: Asks LP to please vote on whether or not he approves the publishing of Professor Meyer's book, "Chemistry of Natural Dyes" in the monograph series. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #279, Folder #279.4]
• Memo from W. A. Noyes to LP, Lind RE: Inquiring whether they approve of a contract with Fritz Meyer for a monograph on "The Chemistry of Natural Dyes." Initialed by LP under "Approve." [LP's next letter to Noyes February 10, 1939] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #279, Folder #279.4]
• Research notebooks of LP, RNB 35b RE: Tests on LePages case in glue