December 27, 1945

Professor W. Albert Noyes, Jr.

Chariman, Department of Chemistry

The University of Rochester

Rochester 3, New York

Dear Robert:

First let me congratulate you on your choice as President-elect of the American Chemical Society. I contributed my bit by voting for you.

With respect to your letter of December 21, about openings as Instructor or Assistant Professor in Inorganic, Organic, or Physical Chemistry at The University of Rochester, could you say whether you can wait until summer, or need the man right away? We shall have some good people available in a few months, I believe.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling

LP:par

P.S. Let me say now that we have one man who is a very active and effective worker, and who would, I think, be interested in an Assistant Professorship of Organic Chemistry at a reasonably good salary (we now pay him $3600 per year as Senior Fellow in Research, on year to year appointment). This man is Dr. David Pressman, who studied at U.C.L.A. and Cal. Tech., and who for about five years has been Research Fellow and Senior Fellow in Research, in connection with our program of Immunochemistry. His field of research is Physical Organic Chemistry—he was trained by Bill Young at U.C.L.A. and Howard Lucas here. He is writing a laboratory manual of Organic Chemistry, as co-author with Professor Lucas. He is an excellent teacher, and a very energetic, able, and effective research man. I think that he plans to continue with research in Organic Chemistry,