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December 10, 1954
 
Ts.: Advice to Students
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Location: Stockholm


  • Rehearsal for all Laureates at 11:30 at the Concert Hall
  • Nobel Banquet at 7 p. m. at the City Hall
  • Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Lillian L. McClintock RE: States that LP has left on trip around the world, and won't be back until March. [Letter from Lillian McClintock 1954-12-09, reply by the executive secretary of Gates and Crellin Laboratories 1954-12-10] [Filed under A correspondence 1954, box#10].
  • Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, Nobel Prize for Chemistry for 1954, Medal, Certificate. [LP Awards: Box 1954h2.1]
  • LP's statement upon reception of Nobel Prize (handwritten and typed drafts) ...The award of the Nobel Prize is a great honor, and I appreciate deeply that action of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in selecting me to receive the 1954 Prize in Chemistry. I am deeply appreciative also of the contributions made by my outstandingly able collaborators in the Gates and Crellin Laboratories of Chemistry of the California Institute of Technology to the work for which the Prize was awarded. I have been fortunate in having been for 32 years a member of the staff of this Institute, where there are unusually favorable conditions for carrying on scientific research.[LP Awards Box 1954h2.5]
  • Nobel ceremony program [LP Awards Box 1954h2.9]
  • Traduction des Discours a la Fte Nobel 1954, Booklet of speeches given during the Nobel presentation ceremony including the speech by Prof. Gunnar Hgg given upon the presentation of LP's Nobel Prize [LP Awards Box 1954h2.9]
  • Typescript, Advice to Students [1954a.11]
  • Typescript: Response to by Linus Pauling, as a spokesman for Nobel Laureates, to the university students of Sweden, holding a torchlight procession in the Blue Room of the City Hall, Stockholm [LP Speeches 1954s.17]
  • Response by LP, as spokesman for all Nobel laureates, to the university students of Sweden, holding a torchlight procession in the Blue Room of the City Hall, Stockholm. 10 p. m. ". . . When an old an distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect-but do not believe him. Never put your trust in anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether his is a Nobel Laureate, may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical-always think for yourself. . . You will have some great problems to solve-the greatest of all is the problem of war and peace. I believe that this problem has been solved, by the hydrogen bomb-that their will never again be a world war-the knowledge that a world war would mean world-wide destruction, perhaps the end of civilization, will surely lead to permanent peace."[LP Awards Box 1954h2.10]
  • Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Dr. Joseph Kraut RE: In reference to Kraut's letter of 1954-11-15 and Wulf's letter of 1954-12-07 indicating LP did write to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in support of Kraut's application. [Wulf's letter 1954-12-07] [Filed under K: Correspondence 1954, Box #193]
  • Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Dr. Dael Wolfle RE: Replies that she believes LP would be willing to serve as President-elect of the AAAS if elected, but supplies his itinerary if he should wish to contact him personally about the matter [Wolfle's letter 1954-12-08] [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #429]
  • Newspaper Clipping: "Nobelpristagarmote hos Riksmarskalken", Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm) December 10, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n.52]
  • Newspaper Clipping: "Dr. Pauling Accepts Nobel Award", Pasadena (California) Star-News, December 10, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clipping s 1954n.53]
  • Newspaper Clipping: "Nobel Prize Awarded to 5 Americans", Honolulu (Hawaii) Star-Bulletin, December 10, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n.54]
  • Newspaper Clipping: "Hemingway glnzt durch Abwesenheit", Publication Unknown, December 10, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n.55]
  • Newspaper Clipping: "Nobelfesten hos Ekeberg samlade 100", Stockholms-Tidningen (Sweden), December 10, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.1]
  • Newspaper Clipping: "Nobelfolket Samlat", Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm, Sweden), December 10, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.2]
  • Newspaper Clipping: "Seven Given Nobel Prizes", Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Journal, December 10, 1954.[LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.17]
  • Letter from Fred Seitz? to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel Prize [LP Scrapbook 6.75]
  • Program: "Nobelstiftelsens Hogtidsdag", December 10, 1954. [LP Scrapbook 6.86]
  • Program: "Nobelstiftelsens Middaag", December 10, 1954. [LP Scrapbook 6.86]
  • Program: "Nobelstiftelsens hogtidsdag", December 10, 1954. [LP Scrapbook 6.86]
  • Magazine Article: "Linus Pauling", Science [LP Scrapbook 6.112]
  • Newspaper Clipping: "Mamma, pappa, barn Pauling dominerade glad mottagning", Dagens Nyheter [LP Scrapbook 6.115]
  • Newspaper Clipping: "'Nobelfesten' hos Ekeberg samlade 100", Stockholms-Tidningen [LP Scrapbook 6.117]
  • Newspaper Clipping: "Nobelfint Hos Ekebergs", Dagens Nyheter [LP Scrapbook 6.117]
  • Newspaper Clipping: "En Ringdands Av Nojen Vantar Gasterna", Svenska Dagbladet [LP Scrapbook 6.118]
  • Letter from George Cleland to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel prize [LP Scrapbook 6.129]
  • Letter from Andre J. deBethune to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel prize, chemistry text review [LP Scrapbook 6.132]
  • Letter from W. L. Bragg, The Royal Institution to LP RE: Bragg is contacting LP as a fellow member of the Advisory Board for ACTA concerning a publishing crisis which will cause ACTA to lose its current Technical Editor, Evans. Bragg would like LP to support a decision to postpone the matter of changing publishers for two years. [LP Safe 2.002.11]
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