Letter from Linus Pauling to Johanna Sommerfeld. December 4, 1954. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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  4 December 1954

  Frau Johanna Sommerfeld

  Dunantstrasse 6 (13b)

  Munchen 23, Germany

  Dear Frau Sommerfeld:

  It was a great pleasure to receive your letter, and to think about you and Ernst and Professor Sommerfeld again. I feel sure, as you do, that Professor Sommerfeld would have been very pleased with the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to me. I know that he thought that it was wise for me to attempt to apply quantum mechanics to the problem of Chemistry, and experience has shown that this was a good decision.

  My wife and I hope to see you again one one [sic] of these days. We are not coming to Germany, however, on this trip. Instead, we shall proceed on from Stockholm to Israel, India, Japan, and Hawaii, reaching home again in March.

  We shall tell our son Peter about your letter, and give him your greetings, when we see him, on Tuesday, in Stockholm. He is now in Cambridge, England, together with our daughter.

  With best regards to you and Ernst, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:M

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