Activity Listings
- Copy of Letter from LP to Dr. C.M.A. Stine, Vice President, Dupont, RE: Informs him of the current research with protein structure and asks him to consider providing a fellowship for research in this area. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #67.6 file:(Corey, Robert B., 1937, 1943, 1947-1952, 1954-1957, 1960, 1965, 1967-1968, 1971)]
- Letter from Dr. Edwin Cohn to LP RE: Asks LP to send any comments he has for the conference on “The Physical, Physical-Chemical and Organic-Chemical Evidence Regarding Crystalline Protein Molecules” to Cohn and he will see that they are discussed. Also sends preprints. [Letter from LP to Cohn February 9, 1940] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #66.10, file:(Cohn, Edwin, J. 1939-1940, 1942, 1944, 1947)]
- Letter from H. B. van Wesep, Chief, Information Service, The Rockefeller Foundation, to LP RE: Requests some photographs relating to the grant given to Caltech for work in biological chemistry. [Letter from LP to Mr. H. B. van Wesep January 30, 1940] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #427.2]
- Letter from LP to Dr. C. M. A. Stine, Vice President, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., RE: Discusses his current work with proteins involving x-ray methods and fiber extrusion. Asks if Stine would help provide a post-doctorate fellowship at Caltech. Discusses some of the faculty and new activities. [Letter from C. M. A. Stine to LP January 29, 1940] [Filed under LP Correspondence: S: Correspondence, 1940, #377.10]
- Letter from LP to Dr. C.H. Kunsman, Chief of Physico-Chemical and Analytical Division, Western Regional Research Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture RE: Thanks him for the notice about the Civil Service examination for a Junior Professor Assistant. [Letter from Kunsman to LP January 18, 1940] [Filed under LP Correspondence: 441.5]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Godfrey R. Hoerner, Department of Plant Pathology, Oregon State College, RE: Returns Dean Dubach's letter. Clarifies that the “Union Now” movement is not directed specifically at students, but at a more mature audience. [Letters from Hoerner to LP and Dubach January 15, 1940] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #165.5, file:(H: Correspondence, 1940)]
- Letter from LP to Dr. William West, Department of Chemistry at New York University RE: Replies that West would be a guest of the Institute, and extends an invitation for him to make use of the laboratories. Notes that Prof. Badger would be glad to have him collaborate in some spectroscopic work, or he could work in the photochemistry with Prof. Dickinson, or carry on electron diffraction studies. Adds that when G.B.B.M. Sutherland was there they discussed some of West's spectroscopic work, and would be interested in talking over a theory LP formulated when he comes. [Letters from West to Pauling January 16, 1940, February 5, 1940] [Filed under LP Correspondence: 443.8]
- Letter from LP to Mr. Frank E. Ross RE: LP apologizes for the six month delay in answering his letter, however he back East when it arrived and became buried on his desk. LP does not have a sensible answer to give him about the question of lumber and concrete. He did however, ask his cousin, a bridge engineer, and he said that plywood which has been bonded with synthetic resins of the bakelite type work well for building concrete forms. [Ross's letter: July 18, 1939] [Filed under: R: Correspondence, Box #334]
- Letter from LP to Mr. Roy Stephens, Executive Assistant, Internal Business Machines Corp. [Letters from Irvin Stewart to LP January 22, 1940, from LP to Dr. Irvin Stewart January 30, 1940] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #368.6]
January 23, 1940
Mr. Roy Stephens
Executive Assistant
International Business Machines Corporation
590 Madison Avenue
New York, New York
Dear Mr. Stephens:
I have been informed by Mr. H. D. Smith and Mr. A. A. Burgoyne of the Los Angeles office of your Corporation that you will provide the machines needed for the prosecution of our scientific work without rental charge. The use of these machines will enable us to make rapid progress in our extensive researches on the atomic structure of molecules and crystals, including substances related to proteins, which have great biological significance. I wish to extend my sincere thanks to you for assisting our researches in this way, and to congratulate the International Business Machines Corporation on its interest in the problems of pure science.
Sincerely yours,
Linus Pauling
LP/jr
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January
23, 1940
