18 November 1953

Dr. Samuel M. Feinberg, Director

Allergy Research Laboratory

Northwestern University

303 E. Chicago Avenue

Chicago 11, Illinois

Dear Dr. Feinberg:

I am glad to have your letter of 16 November, and to give you such information as I can about Dr. Morris Goodman.

Dr. Goodman worked in collaboration with some of my colleagues while he was in the California Institute of Technology, and I had the opportunity to talk with him several times about his work. However, he did not work directly with me, and I have to admit that I do not know his intimately.

I have the opinion that he has a good background of knowledge and experience in modern biochemical techniques. Much of his work has been with proteins, and the impression that I formed on talking with him is that he understands what he is doing, and carries through his work in a satisfactory way. He seems to have a good knowledge of chemistry, although I judge that he is not trained in physical chemistry and molecular structure, or the more mathematical aspects of chemistry.

Dr. Goodman impressed me as having a good personality, and I would expect him to work satisfactorily with other people. He seemed to me to have a considerable amount of originality.

To summarize, I would say that the contacts that I had with Dr. Goodman left me with a favorable impression of him, but that I did not know him well enough to be able to form a really precise estimate of his abilities.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling:W