January 20, 1956 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Check from LP to TV-Time for $15.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2]

Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, CIT, to Leonard Zweig, "Youth Wants to Know," National Broadcasting Company, RE: Requests half a dozen copies of the transcription of LP's broadcast of "Youth Wants to Know" on January 1. [Letter from LP to Zweig January 20, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.1]

Letter from G. W. Wheland to LP RE: Address LP's inquiries about resonance in his new book. Mentions personal matters. [Letters from LP to Wheland January 16, 1956, January 26, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Wheland, G. W.), #437.7]

Letter from John Leo Abernethy, California State Polytechnic College, to Beatrice J. Wulf, Secretary to LP, RE: Persists in requesting the manuscript of LP's talk "The Genesis of Ideas" for publication in the Journal of Chemical Eduation. [Letter from Abernethy to LP January 11, 1956, Letter from Wulf to Abernethy February 21, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1956), #12.22]

Letter from LP to Andrew J. Ranalletta RE: Clarifies the meaning of his statements regarding religion and science made on the TV program, "Youth Wants to Know." [Letter from Ranalleta to LP January 2, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1956), #341.2]

Letter from LP to Chauncey Leake, Ohio State University, RE: Says Leake's letter cheered him after recently receiving a harsh criticism of his TV appearance. [Letter from Leake to LP January 20, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1956), #341.2]

Letter from LP to Danny Sloan, TV-Time, RE: Encloses a check for $15 for unbreakable long-playing discs of his broadcast "Youth Wants to Know" over NBC-TV on January 1. [Letter from Sloan to LP, January (general)] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.1]

Letter from LP to Dr. Kenneth J. Palmer, Agricultural Research Service, Western Utilization Research Branch, RE: Has decided that he should probably not give a seminar as the schedule for his Berkeley visit is already rather full. Additionally, the talks that LP will give at Berkeley are on topics similar to the ones Palmer suggested. Gives dates and times for these lectures. Has also agreed to give a talk to the CIT alumni in the region. Suggests he come to lunch with Palmer on February 22, just after his lecture. He could tour the laboratory that afternoon. Feels an obligation to talk with chemistry staff members at the University and has not allowed much time to do so. [Letters from Palmer to LP January 18, 1956, January 23, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.3]

Letter from LP to Frank Kozacik RE: Says he is unclear on the meaning of Kozacik's statement regarding salt-production in alkali soils. Explains why the human body cannot produce salt. [Note from Kozacik to LP January 18, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1956), #200.21]

Letter from LP to Irving Iscoe RE: Expresses his interest in Iscoe's ideas regarding God. [Letter from Iscoe to LP January 8, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1956), #341.2]

Letter from LP to Leonard Zweig, "Youth Wants to Know," National Broadcasting Company, RE: Thanks Zweig for the clipping from the Washington Star and for the photographs that were taken at the time of the kinescoping of LP's "Youth Wants to Know" broadcast. [Letter from Zweig to LP January 10, 1956, Letter from Wulf to Zweig January 20, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.1]

Letter from LP to Llewellyn James RE: Thanks James for his January 2 letter. Says he enjoyed the enclosed quotations from Dr. Frank Crane. [Letter from James to LP January 2, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1956), #341.2]

Letter from LP to Lytt S. Gardner, State University of New York, RE: Thanks Gardner for his letter and enclosed reprint of a talk given by Mrs. Agnes E. Meyer. [Letter from Gardner to LP January 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1956), #341.2]

Letter from LP to Michael A. Post RE: Thanks Post for his letter and attached essay. Says he enjoyed the essay but did not fully understand it. [Letter from Post to LP January 3, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1956), #341.2]

Letter from LP to Rosanna M. Kelly RE: Responds to Kelly's question about a statement he made in his January 1 appearance on "Youth Wants to Know." [Letter from Kelly to LP January 3, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1956), #200.21]

Letter from Mrs. Kenneth Goodall to LP RE: Asks LP for his opinion about which school her son, Dick should go to to major in electronics (Dick would like to go to MIT, Stanford, Cal Tech, OSC, or Harvard). Encloses a paper about old Oswego. [Letter from LP to Goodall January 26, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]

Letter from Peter Pauling to LP. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.042, Folder #42.3]

20, January, 1956

Dear Daddy,

I am sorry about the mistakes and vagueness in my recent correspondence.

I think that I may get out of my three projections of myoglobin by locating the atoms of mercury in a compound of myoglobin with para choloro mercury benzene sulfonic acid. I think the projection the difference Patterson of which I am now awaiting will confirm my interpretation of the first difference Patterson, and I think I will be able to refine the difference structure of HgI_n [handwritten note: n=2,3], which makes very large differences in the diffraction pattern.

John Edsall was around yesterday and today. He seems well. He talked to Howard Dintzis, but I do not yet know what they concluded. I have seen Jack Dunitz, and his wife and they are well, but searching for a place to live in London, which is quite difficult.

I have not worried much about next year, and am somewhat upset that Robley Williams will be in Cambridge next year, I could stay here, I think and work in the Molteno with Kenneth Smith, Roy Markham and Robley Williams.

Have you heard anything about your rotating anode X-ray tube? I have written to Holmes, but he has not yet answered. Our present seals have now run for well over 1000 hours in each of two tubes, and I am beginning to think that they might be practical.

Linda is sill in Edinburgh, and I think reasonably happy. I hear she was in good form over Christmas, and fitted in well with the Mitchison’s. I think she likes them.

Francis Crick, Jim Watson, and Don Caspar are all working hard on viruses. Rosie Franklin has some results on the differences between TMV and the A protein without RNA, and the reaction of the A protein with mercury. The present idea is that the RNA is at 40 A radius, and consequently there must be some protein inside the RNA chains. They also think there are 14 RNA chains, tilted at 45 to the virus axis, and a fourfold screw up each chain.

I think that a good convenient proportional counter spectrometer may be the best method of gathering three dimensional protein crystal diffraction data. It would be nice if the gadget were automatic, but that may be too much to ask.

I have not done my calculations using the co-ordinates that we took, but think I might try to make a little program for relaxation.

Much love,

Peter

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