Letter from Linus Pauling to A.R. Miller. October 23, 1947. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Letter from Alden Emery, Executive Secretary, ACS to LP RE: Informs LP that complimentary copies of two new monographs are available to the members of the editorial board. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box #70.4, file:(Chemical Monographs, 1946-1950)]
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, to Dr. Otto K. Behrens, Head, Bio-organic Chemical Research Department, Lilly Research Laboratories, RE: Replies that LP will be pleased to see him on the 30th, but that he will have to leave early as he will be speaking that evening. [Letter from Behrens to LPOctober 20, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #111.4, file:(Eli Lilly and Company, 1946-1951, 1953-1956, 1964-1968, 1970-1972)]
• Letter from D.A. Wells, Acting Head of L.A. Physics, University of Cincinnati to LP RE: Asks for general information regarding the transmission of infrared by crystals, explains he is helping with a project for Wright Field and they are interested in what has been or can be done theoretically. Explains that their question is, given a certain type of crystal what can be done toward computing the percentage transmission as a function of wavelength, and adds that their search through the literature so far has revealed very little. Mentions that Dr. Boris Podolsky suggested LP, and asks for any references or information on what has been done before. [Letter from LP to Wells October 29, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence: 443.15]
• Letter from LP to Alan J. Perlis, Dept of Mathematics, MIT RE: Thanks him for returning the curves. Suggests he continue working on the conversion of exponentials and recommends he submit a thesis for his Master's degree application. [Note from Alan J. Perlis to LP October 2, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #312.12]
• Letter from LP to Dr. A. R. Miller, Royal Society Mond Laboratory, University of Cambridge. [Letters from Miller to LP October 11, 1947, November 12, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #255.14, file:(M: Correspondence, 1947)]

  October 23, 1947

  Dr. A. H. Miller

  The Royal Society Mond Laboratory

  University of Cambridge

  Free School Lane

  Cambridge, England

  Dear Dr. Miller:

  I have been interested to see your letter of 11 October, in which you ask about the existence of the body centered cubic form of uranium.

  I have not taken the trouble to look in the literature for the references on this form of uranium—-I am sure that they are given in the Struktur Berjcht. Also, I have not checked back on Warren and Jacob's paper, but I think that the sentence in your letter in which you say that they reject the possibility of a body centered cubic structure means that they eliminated this structure from their x-ray data for the sample with which they are working—that is, the body centered structure was not correct for the form of uranium that they had available.

  The main reason that I have not taken the trouble to make a literature search now is that I feel sure that there are not only two, but rather three, forms of uranium. I have just seen Prof. R. E. Rundle, of the Atomic Research Institute at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, who, in a paper on uranium hydride published in the July, 1947 of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, mentioned three forms of metallic uranium. When I saw him I asked him about these three forms, and he said that he himself had obtained x-ray photographs of the three. One of these is the body centered cubic form, one the form with the unique structure, and the third is a form that gives a different x-ray pattern, which has not yet been evaluated.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:par

• Letter from LP to Dr. E.C. Kleiderer, Lilly Research Laboratories, RE: Sends a check for the three packages of Kodachrome that AHP obtained from Kleiderer. Adds that an outstanding laundry bill of the Pauling's from the Athletic Club may have been charged to Eli Lilly, and asks that it be forwarded to him. States that they will arrive in Indianapolis December 21 and leave at 5:00 p.m. on the 22nd. [Letters from Kleiderer to LP October 17, 1947, from LP to Kleiderer October 27, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #111.4, file:(Eli Lilly and Company, 1946-1951, 1953-1956, 1964-1968, 1970-1972)]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Edmund W. Sinnott, Yale University, RE: LP expresses how much he enjoyed his stay at Yale and thanks Sinnott for the wonderful opportunity to meet the staff. He will be sending to Professor Baitsell his revised Silliman manuscript. [Sinnott's letter: October 20, 1947] [Filed under: LP Speeches, 1947s.19]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Francis Joseph Weiss, Sugar Research Foundation RE: Replies to his letter asking about ion-exchange, explains that chemical substitution processes, electrochemical reactions, and surface absorption are all different cases of ion-exchange, and proceeds to give a technical description. Adds that when ion-exchange materials are used to purify sugar, the larger molecules that are taken up by them are absorbed on the surface, and mentions that he does not know of any references where these mechanisms are discussed in detail. [Letter from Weiss to LP October 19, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence: 443.15]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Manfred Curry RE: Thanks him for the offer of a loan of instruments, but regrets that at this time they cannot make use of them. [Undated letter from Curry to LP] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box: #74.15, file:(C: Correspondence, 1946)]
• Letter from LP to Dr. R. E. Rundle, Atomic Research Institute, Iowa State College, RE: Answers Rundle's question regarding the length of different bonds. [Letters from Dr. R. E. Rundle to LP October 8, 1947, November 14, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #336.12]
• Letter from LP to Dr. William E. Vaughan, Shell Development Co., RE: Discusses and states his opinion on organic compounds and the experiments Vaughan inquired about. [Letter from William E. Vaughan to LP October 7, 1947, memo from R. B. Corey to LP October 23, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #425.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. William H. Eberhardt, Department of Chemistry, Georgia Tech, RE: Thanks him for the letter and description of the New York ACS meeting, which he would have attended but decided instead to go to the centennial celebration for the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. Thanks him for the comments on the freshman text and the hardness scale. States that Eberhardt appears to have found a new modification of carbon tetrachloride from details in his letter. Mentions that when Davidson is repairing the model mass spectrograph that Eberhardt built. Again mentions the position opening in Jamaica. [Letters from Eberhardt to LP October 7, 1947, December 14, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #106.3, file:(Eberhardt, William H., 1946, 1947, 1949-1951, 1953, 1955-1956, 1961-1963, 1971, 1981, 1983, 1991)]
• Letter from LP to Helen Alfred RE: Regrets that he will be unable to prepare the requested article on the fundamental use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes and suggests two other possible authors. States that he is still interested in her Peace Publications Fund. [Undated letter from Alfred to LP] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #12.13, file:(A: Correspondence, 1947)]
• Letter from LP to W. C. Lothrop RE: Thanks him for the book review for AHP and the information on the Palestine manuscript. Mentions that it was a pleasure to meet him on the train and hopes to continue contact. [Letter from Lothrop to LP October 14, 1947, November 10, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #11.23, file:(Arthur D. Little, Inc., 1942, 1946-1948, 1955-1956)]
• Letter from Roger J. Williams, University of Texas, to LP. RE: Is considering introducing Natural Sciences at the business meeting. Asks if he would support this resolution. [Filed under LP Science: National Academy of Sciences, 1945-1951: Box #14.019 Folder #19.2]
• Memo from R. B. Corey to LP RE: Explains Mr. Dickey's opinion on experiments with ditertiary butyl peroxide. Handwritten at the bottom: “See attached reply.” [Letters from William E. Vaughan to LP October 7, 1947, from LP to William E. Vaughan] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #425.3]
• Writes cheque to “EC Kleiderer. 320 - exp Kodachrome?” $9.12 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.3]