Activity Listings
- LP gives the Vanuxem Lectures at Princeton University: "The Structure and Properties of Antibodies."
- LP writes cheque to: Cash amount $100.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
- Letter from A. Neuberger to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.126]
- Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Peter Pauling concerning flight arrangements for trip. [LP Awards, Box 1954h2.4]
- Letter from Clementina B. Vda de Cerruti to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel prize (in Spanish) [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.136]
- Letter from E. H. Volwiler to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.141]
- Letter from Eugene Rabinowitch, Editor of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to LP RE: Requesting LP send materials, if he wishes, for publication in the January 1955 issue of the Bulletin concerning the changes in the world due to scientific advancements. [LP's reply November 27, 1954] [Filed under LP Peace: Box 3.016, Folder 16.4]
- Letter from Francis C. Gray, Massachusetts General Hospital to LP RE: Thanks LP for his letter and says that they will miss him but rejoice at the reason for LP traveling to Stockholm. [Letter from LP to Gray November 4, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (Helen Hay Whitney Foundation–Scientific Advisory Committee: Correspondence, 1954-1959), Box #15.002, Folder 2.1]
- Letter from Harry Grundfest to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel Prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.69]
- Letter from Henrik Ramel, First Vice Consul, Royal Consulate General of Sweden to Beatrice Wulf RE: telephone conversation of November 16, 1954, inquiring about the date of departure of the Paulings [Reply from Wulf November 18, 1954] [LP Awards, Box 1954h2.13]
- Letter from Jean M. Devening to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel Prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.78]
- Letter from M. J. Buerger to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.134]
- Letter from Mary Greene, Secretary to Paul R. Pariseau, to LP RE: LP's letter of November 4, 1954, indicating he might be unable to give talk because of Nobel trip and world tour. [Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964), Box #14.006, Folder 6.4]
- Letter from Peter Pauling to LP and AHP RE: Informs them that Linda and he have obtained passage for Copenhagen on the 3rd and will wait to make further arrangements until they hear from their parents. Linda is looking for a dress to wear to the ceremonies. [LP Biographical: Box 5.042, Folder 42.1]
16 November 1954
Dear Mamma and Daddy,
Your letter arrived today and Linda and I laughed and laughed.
Linda is hunting for a dress. I like her old ankle length one best of these I have seen.
I am obtaining passage London and Copenhagen on the 3rd and 4th and shall not do anything else unless I hear from you.
I still want to go to Norway after the 17th. Linda, Crellin, and I can have a party. I hope Linus and Anita can come.
I wrote Tess, but she cannot come when I asked her. We are going to Murton Hall for a drink on Thursday.
I guess I shall write [Bastiansen?] and ask if there is any place to go. We can’t really impose on him.
Much love from,
Peter
- Letter from Ralph Conner to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.136]
- Letter from Ralph W.G. Wyckoff to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel Prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.68]
- Letter from W. Mayo Smith to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel Prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.78]
- Note from Lord Victor Rothschild to LP RE: Inquiring about LP's itinerary while in the East so that he might see him before he leaves Pasadena and the U. S. [Letter from LP November 27, 1954] [Filed under R: Individual Correspondence, Box #336.6]
- Note from Milton D. Soffer to LP RE: Concerning attached letter to the Director of the U.S. Information Agency about their "unfair persecution" of LP and the fact that the Voice of America was not allowed to publish an announcement of LP's award of the Nobel Prize. [LP's reply November 27, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
- Note to self by Linus Pauling. [Filed under E: Individual Correspondence, Box #107.1]
Notes on Conversation of Linus Pauling with Albert Einstein on 16 November 1954
On 16 November 1954 I talked with Albert Einstein at his home in Princeton, for a couple of hours, about various matters, scientific in part, but especially about the world as a whole.
When I said goodbye, and left the house, I stopped on the sidewalk and wrote two sentences in my notebook, in order that I would not forget just what he had said to me. One statement that he made that I noted is the following: "Oxenstierna said to his son 'You would be astonished to know with how little wisdom the world is governed.'"
The other sentence about which I made a note is the following: "I made one great mistake in my life - when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them."
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November
16, 1954
