Letter from Linus Pauling to B.L. Kabacoff. August 30, 1955. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from AHP to Beatrice Wright for $4.50. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
• Check from AHP to Herman Keller for $28.80. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
• Letter from B. Caminita[?] for Leo A. Shinn, Office of Naval Research to LP RE: The Biological Sciences Division of the Office of Naval Research has referred LP's renewal request for contract Nonr 220(05) to the Contract Division for negotiation. [Letter from Walter to ONR July 28, 1955] [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Memoranda, Notes and Assorted Materials re: "The Structure and Properties of Proteins and Synthetic Polypeptides," Contract Nonr 220(05) (Chemistry 32), 1951-1963), Box #14.032, Folder #32.2]
• Letter from Dr. Irvin Fuhr, Executive Secretary, Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry Study Section, Division of Research Grants, National Institute of Health, to LP RE: At their next meeting, the Section will be considering the grant application of Ephraim Katchalsi, Weizmann Institute of Science. Requests that LP review the enclosed application, paying particular attention to a given list of points, as well as considering the application in light of the policy for making foreign grants. Requests that LP type his reply on the enclosed Colitho sheets. The Section will meet on September 16; requests that LP's reply arrive no later than September 8. [Letter from LP to Fuhr, September (general)] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Organizational Correspondence. (National Institute of Health)), #285.3]
• Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.042, Folder #42.2]

  29 August 1955

  Dear Peter:

  I enclose a page of material that I have sent to Fankuchen, to be added to our manuscript. Let me know if you have any questions about it.

  I am interested to hear about Kendrew's success in adding the mercuric tetraiodide ion to sperm whale myoglobin. I agree that the thorough study of these crystals might well be a satisfactory thesis problem for you. It has the advantage over the alpha helix problem that Kendrew and Perutz are experienced in the job, and that by working hard you can be sure of getting something reasonably definite in the way of results during the year.

  Crellin continues to do very well in his work as draftsman. He has worked steadily, and his drawings have improved in style. During the last two weeks he has had to put in several hours holding Gus with the fence. The fence is completed now, except that it has net yet been trimmed off at the top - Gus will do that this week. Mama and I think that it looks fine, considerably better than the section that had been put up earlier. I am going to have Gus make some improvements in this section.

  I have not got so much work done during the last month as I had expected. I have thought about changes to be made in Chapter 2 of The Nature of the Chemical Bond, and have made a number of decisions, but have not yet rewritten the chapter. I got out a manuscript that I wrote in June, on "Why Is Hydrofluoric Acid a Weak Acid?" and have polished it up for publication. I am going to send it to the Journal of Chemical Education, and will include it almost verbatim in the new edition of The Nature of the Chemical Bond.

  Martin Karplus has been here for a week, and we have talked about what he needs to do toward revising our Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. Bright Wilson and I are hoping that he will do most of the work. We do not want it to be changed greatly in character.

  Ken Hedberg has finally accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of Chemistry in Oregon State College, Corvallis. I think that he and Lisa will have to leave in two or three weeks.

• Letter from LP to Professor I. Fankuchen, Editor, Acta Crystallographica, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, RE: Encloses a one-page addendum to be added to the manuscript "On the Valence and Atomic Size of Silicon, Germanium, Arsenic, Antimony, and Bismuth in Alloys" which was recently submitted for publication. Also encloses a page with five references to Bridgeman. [Letter from LP to Fankuchen July 27, 1955] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1955a.4]
• Letter from Professor Raymond M. Fuoss, Chemistry Dept., Yale University, to LP RE: Regrets to say that since his letter of August 5, Fuoss has found that his schedule is going to be so heavy that he cannot prepare the review lecture which LP requested. Hopes that this allows sufficient time to find a substitute before the symposium. Klotz would do an excellent job speaking on ionic interactions in polyelectrolytes. [Letter from Fuoss to LP August 5, 1955, Telegram from Fuoss to LP September 6, 1955] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1955s.24]
• Letter from T. C. Bronaugh to Caltech RE: Bronaugh has chronic leukemia and thought he had heard that Caltech was conducting leukemia research. Requests advice on treatments other than radiation, such as a drug called Myleran. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1955-1957), #38.1]