Letter from Linus Pauling to Marcus E. Hobbs. May 12, 1954. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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• AHP writes check to: A. C. Vromann amount $3.05 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes check to: Mira Loma Mutual Water Co. amount $14.07 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: A. A. U. N., Pasadena amount $3.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Adohr Milk Farms amount $9.19 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: All American Maintenance Co., Inc. amount $30.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Athenaeum (Caltech) amount $24.36 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Bullock's Pasadena amount $16.66 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Fashion Cleaners amount $6.80 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co. amount $9.31 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Richfield Oil Corporation amount $3.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Robert I. Boyd amount $6.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Southern California Edison Co. amount $29.30 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: The Apothecary Shop amount $8.03 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Tide Water Associated Oil Company amount $24.75 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: William Bawden amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Ben May to LP RE: Enclosed letter rom Dr. Seymour Kety and item from the New York Times. [Filed under M: Individual Correspondence, Box #244.5]
• Letter from Dr. G. Burroughs Mider, Associate Director in Charge of Research, National Cancer Institute to LP RE: Reply to LP's request that Itano remain at Caltech. Mider states as long as Itano remains an officer of the Public Health Service he must transfer to Maryland, however he could chose to work at Caltech under other auspices. [Letter from LP May 10, 1954] [Filed under N: Organizational Correspondence, National Institute of Health, Box #285.2]
• Letter from Francis Crick, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn to LP RE: Crick will have his manuscript for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finished by mid-June. He also mentions he suggested Rosalind Franklin visit LP's lab in September and inquires if LP will be in England next year. [LP's letter May 6, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from L. P. Miller, Riders Limited Manufacturing Chemists and Pharmacists to LP RE: Asking whether it would be advisable to use deuterium oxide in ointments and face packs [LP's reply May 17, 1954] [Filed under M: Correspondence 1954, Box #256.5]
• Letter from LP to Detlev W. Bronk, President, National Academy of Sciences RE: Informing Bronk of the outcome of LP's hearings on clearance. The matter has been dropped as the problem was due to the error of the Personnel Officer at California Institute of Technology. [LP Biographical: Box 2.010, Folder 10.2]
• Letter from LP to Detlev W. Bronk, President, National Academy of Sciences RE: Notifying Bronk that LP has prepared an application for a research grant for Public Health Services for $8640 for the period November 1, 1954 to October 31, 1955 for continuation of his work on abnormal hemoglobin. [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Ernest M. Allen, National Institutes of Health RE: Has asked that his application for “Investigations of the Chemistry of Blood” for a sum of $8,640 be considered before the normal time of October 1954. LP explains that this work was supported since 1946 through other grants and that he has a Research Fellow waiting appointment. [Letter from Allen to LP May 19, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (United States Public Health Service: Assorted Grants, 1954-1964), Box #14.042, Folder 42.1]
• Letter from LP to Marcus Hobbs, Duke University. [Hobbs' letter April 30, 1954; reply May 14, 1954] [Filed under H Correspondence 1954, Box #166.5]

  12 May 1954

  Professor Marcus E. Hobbs, Chairman

  Department of Chemistry

  Duke University

  Durham, North Carolina

  Dear Professor Hobbs:

  I was shocked to learn from the local newspaper about the death of Professor Fritz London, whom I had known very well nearly thirty years ago, in Germany and Switzerland. I had great admiration for him.

  As to a theoretical chemist whom you might appoint, and who has interests along general lines of the work that Coulson and others have been carrying out, I am pleased to be able to five a strong recommendation to each of two young men who have worked with me. These men are Dr. Martin Karplus and Mr. Gary Felsenfeld. Each of them has, during his period as a graduate student here, carried on theoretical work, the application of quantum mechanical methods to chemical problems. Dr. Karplus received his Ph.D. last June. He was awarded a National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship, and at the present time he is working in Oxford, with Professor Coulson. His fellowship has been extended for another year, and presumably he would not be available for appointment until the fall of 1955. I may mention that Professor B. Bright Wilson, Jr. and I have asked him to collaborate with us in the preparation of a second edition of our book Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, with Applications to Chemistry and Physics.

  Mr. Gary Felsenfeld is scheduled to receive his Ph.D. degree this June. He also has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship by the National Science Foundation, and he will spend the coming year with Coulson in Oxford. He also would, then, not be available to take up residence in Durham until the fall of 1955. You may have noticed a paper by him in the last issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, dealing with the theory of ferromagnetism.

  I am not able to distinguish between Karplus and Felsenfeld with respect either to their ability or to their personal characteristics. Both of them are outstanding men, thoroughly trained in chemistry, physics, mathematics, and related subjects. They both have a thoroughly sound feeling for experiment, but are primarily interested in chemical theory. Each of them is an excellent lecturer, with a fine personality. I should be glad to see either one of them as a member of our own staff, if we had a suitable opening. I expect each of them to become a leading theoretical chemist during future years.

  If you would like to have additional information about either one of these men, please let me know.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP has received a letter from Dr. W. Foerst, in which he says that Friedrich Helfferich is going to translate General Chemistry into German. He also included copies of three reviews of the American edition, which LP has translated and sent along. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1953b.2]
• Letter from Martin Karplus to LP RE: Reply to letters of 3-8, May 4, 1954. Karplus will be in Pasadena after NSF fellowship is through; will spend some time at Oxford working on book; requests more details on the position opening at Johns Hopkins. [LP reply May 18, 1954] [Filed under K: Individual Correspondence, Box #197.6]
• Letter from Rollin D. Hotchkiss, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research to LP RE: Declining LP's request to submit a manuscript for publication in conjunction with the National Academy of Sciences symposium on nucleic acids. [LP's letter May 6, 1954; LP's reply May 17, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]