Letter from Linus Pauling to Albert Szent-Györgyi. December 11, 1953. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• AHP writes cheque to: AC Vroman [Vroman's Bookstore]: amount: $30.02 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: American Foundation for the Blind: amount: $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Athenaeum [Jet Propulsion Laboratory Bookstore]: amount: $4.80 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Carl Hoelscher: amount: $6.16 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Colby Nurseries: amount: $10.18 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Fashion Cleaners: amount: $5.60 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Gene Browne [Ralph's Grocery Company]: amount: $19.35 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Mira Loma Mutual Water Company: amount: $9.45 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pacific Tel & Tel: amount: $14.33 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pasadena Corset Shop, Inc.: amount: $25.88 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pasadena Tuberculosis Association: amount: $2.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Piney Woods Country Life School: amount: $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Richfield Oil Corporation: amount: $25.17 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Southern Counties Gas Company: amount: $6.41 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Susie Perry [Boormans Market]: amount: $6.25 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: The American Indian Fund: amount: $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: The Parkway-Pasadena: amount: $34.88 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Tide Water Associated Oil Company: amount: $10.27 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Women's International League: amount: $3.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
• Caltech Ph.D. Oral Examination held for Donald G. Crosby. [Filed under: LP Biographical, Box 1.016, Folder 16.2]
• Letter from C.V. Natarajan to LP RE: has notified Prasad and Bhatnagar, who have been planning LP's itinerary, to include Bangalore in the destinations. [Related letter from LP to Natarajan December 2, 1953].
• Letter from Dr. Farrington Daniels to LP [copy made from an original in the LP Collection Science Section] RE: Discusses the case of Mme. Joliot-Curie being denied membership to the ACS. Explains to LP his understood reasons for the denial. Mentions the situation as some kind of "communist trap designed to embarrass [them]." [related letter from LP to Dr. Daniels December 7, 1953, related letter from LP to Dr. Daniels December 17, 1953] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #190, Folder #4 (Irene Joliot-Curie)].
• Letter from LP to Dr. Archibald Gillies RE: Writes in response to Dr. Gillies' letter and request for critique on his paper. LP writes that his results on binary mixtures of substituted phenoxyacetic acids are not yet in shape for publication. Goes on to describe his problems with the paper. [pencil note in the lower left of the letter: "material he sent."] [Letter from Dr. Archibald Gillies to LP October 22, 1953] [Filed under G: Correspondence 1953, Box #140, Folder #17]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Sundaram, The Royal Institute of Chemistry, Madras, India RE: Would like to visit the institute and goes on to list five possible topics for a lecture. [in reply to letter from Sundaram to LP December 3, 1953].
• Letter from LP to Sidney Weinbaum. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #433, Folder #8]

  10 December 1953

  Dr. S. Weinbaum

  221 North Rampart St.

  Los Angeles, Calif.

  Dear Sidney:

  I am sorry that I was not in my office when you and Lena dropped by. I am very busy right now getting everything done that needs to be done before leaving for India.

  There is a matter that I feel that I should mention to you. When I was in Israel and looking over the scientific work that was being done I thought of the possibility that you and Lena would want to emigrate to that country. I may say that I was very much impressed by it.

  I spoke to Dr. Aaron Katchalsky, Weizmann Institute, Rehovoth, Israel, about you. He suggested that you write to him if you are interested in the possibility.

  Dr. Katchalsky is a leading chemist - his field is the chemistry of high polymers. During the last few years he has been scientific director of the Weizmann Institute, but that job has now been turned over to his brother.

  Dr. Katchalsky said that the laws of Israel are such that any Jew who asks for admission to the country is admitted.

  He also said that it might be possible to arrange a job for you teaching physics somewhere in Israel.

  At the present time there is little work in physics being done in the Weizmann Institute - they have laid the cornerstone of a physics laboratory, but have not yet appointed physicists to the staff. No teaching is done there, however, and probably Dr. Katchalaky had in mind some other institution. There is a university, Hebrew University, in Jerusalem, and a technical school, the Teknion, in Haifa. In addition, there are, I think, other schools in which physics is taught at other places in the country.

  I found that I was very much interested in the kibbuzin. It occurred to me that it would be possible that you and Lena would want to join a kibbuz. Probably you would then work as a teacher, but the level of instruction in physics, mathematics, and related subjects would not be very high. The kibbuzin are primarily agricultural communal groups, but they carry on instruction of the younger people there.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W