Letter from Linus Pauling to Carl Niemann. April 1, 1948. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Letter (with copy) Priscilla Roth, Secretary to LP to Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP at Caltech RE: Thanks her for the check deposit stub, says LP doesn't want the “Who's Who in America” or the Silliman lecture, says he would like 150 reprints of the International Congress paper if they haven't been ordered recently, tells her the mail came all right, says LP and family leave for Paris tomorrow, and tells a bit of her holiday plans. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Oxford University, [re: Eastman professorship and residency in Oxford] 1946-1948), #299.8]
• Letter from Abraham E. Millgram to Gentlemen of Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists. Writes that he received their receipt, but he would like to correct their records. His son, Hillel Milligram, a high school student, saved his weekly allowance in order to make a donation and he matched his son's donation. [Letter from Millgram to Gentlemen of Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, February 15, 1948, Letter from Ray to Millgram, April 28, 1948] LP Peace: Box 3.005, Folder 5.6
• Letter from Charles Schauer to LP RE: Requests LP's opinion on Sidney Benson in relation to his application for a grant in aid of research. (Note in pencil in top margin: “LP: I asked several people in the lab if they could take care of this for you, but no one felt he knew Prof. Benson well enough. B.W.) [Letter from Wulf to Schauer April 10, 1948, Letter from LP to Schauer May 4, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.15, file:(B: Correspondence 1948)]
• Letter from Dr. David B. Tyler, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Dept of Embryology, to LP RE: Asks if LP could give a seminar for John Hopkins University, University of Maryland, and Carnegie Institution of Washington. [Letter from LP to Dr. David B. Tyler May 10, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #408.11]
• Letter from LP to Byron V. Crane, Chemical Editor, Journal of Commerce, RE: Regrets he is unable to furnish a statement for the special edition of the journal as Crane's letter has reached LP in England after the March 25th deadline. [Letter from Crane to LP February 19, 1948, from Wulf to Crane February 26, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #192.14, file:(J: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Carl G. Niemann, Crellin Laboratory. [Letter from Niemann to LP March 19, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #277.5, file:(Niemann, Carl)] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #277.5, file:(Niemann, Carl)]

  Balliol College

  Oxford, England

  April 1, 1948

  Dr. Carl G. Niemann

  Crellin Laboratory

  California Institute of Technology

  Pasadena 4, California

  Dear Carl:

  You have my approval of offering postdoctorate appointments at $3500 a year for the year 1948-9 to the two men mentioned in your letter, the Chinese and the Swiss. I think that it would be wise to plan to have them work on means of preventing the destruction of insulin in vivo by use of inhibitors for the enzymes that destroy insulin or by modifying the insulin molecule. The possibility of a change in this plan can be discussed later.

  I must say that the results that Chibnall reported on the nature of the end-groups in insulin and of the sequence of the first half dozen amino acids in one of the polypeptide chains looked very good to me. The technique of marking one of the ends by a colored group and then isolating degradation products by paper chromatography seems to be working out excellently.

  I am looking forward to getting home again, and to seeing you in the fall.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:par

  cc: R. B. Corey

• Letter from LP to Dr. E.C. Lingafelter, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, RE: Sends comments on the list of candidates for the position of Chair of the Department of Chemistry. Highly recommends Professor Thorfin Hogness of the University of Chicago, detailing his experience. Also Mentions W.A. Noyes, Jr. and Martin Kilpatrick as other worthy candidates.
• Letter from LP to Dr. George Avery, Jr., Editor, Survey of Biological Progress, RE: Approves of Kamen's manuscripts with a few minor changes. [Letter from Avery to LP March 12, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #197.2, file:(Kamen, Michael)]
• Letter from LP to Dr. J. E. Driver, Journal of the Chemical Society, RE: Replies that he would prefer to write the report for the Quarterly Reviews next year when he has more time to carry out research on the requested subject. Also mentions that an item on a similar topic will appear in the Journal of the Chemical Society after his Liversidge Lecture in June. [Letters from Driver to LP March 17, 1948, January 9, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #192.14, file:(J: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from LP to Dr. J. Martinet RE: Replies that he has heard of Martinet through Miss Behrens. Comments on Martinet's theories regarding color and structure of molecules. Regrets he will be unable to visit Martinet in Besancon. [Letter from Martinet to LP March 25, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #255.15, file:(M: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from LP to H. Burton Lowe, Advertising Department, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, RE: Thanks him for the letter. Regrets he will not be at the Chicago meeting, as he will be in England, but states he should be back for the Washington meeting in early September. [Letter from Lowe to LP February 25, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #182.2, file:(Industrial and Engineering Chemistry - Correspondence)]
• Letter from LP to Lt. Col. R.V. Jenkins RE: Thanks Jenkins for providing him with the needed information. [Filed under: LP Speeches, 1948s.24]
• Letter from LP to The Master, Balliol College RE: Says he and AHP would be happy to look at the flat on Merton Street, says they will give their opinion about its suitability for the Eastman Professor, and says their plans for the next few weeks make it impossible for them to see the flat until the beginning of the next full term, so they will arrange it then. [Letter from the Master to LP March 30, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Oxford University, [re: Eastman professorship and residency in Oxford] 1946-1948), #299.8]