Letter from Linus Pauling to Robert Corey March 13, 1956. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from AHP to Allan Knight Chalmers, Chairman for $10.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
• Check from AHP to Pacific Telephone and Telegraph for $33.57. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
• Check from AHP to Safeway Stores for $50.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1]
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, to Robert F. Gould, Managing Editor, Chemical and Engineering News, RE: LP is willing to review the book Fibrous Proteins and Their Biological Significance. [Letters from Gould to LP March 6, 1956, March 20, 1956] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1956a.6]
• Letter from David C. Young, American Chemical Society, to LP RE: Invites LP to speak before the Midland Section of the American Chemical Society. [Letter from LP to Young March 14, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Y: Correspondence, 1956), #462.12]
• Letter from Dr. Domenico Marotta, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Italy, to LP RE: The Academia dei XL plans to commemorate the life of Avogadro on June 6. Invites LP to deliver a 40-minute Commemoration Lecture on Avogadro's work. An International Prize for Chemistry will be awarded at the ceremony. Requests the text of LP's lecture or a summary. The Academy would cover LP's expenses during his trip. Would like to know how much time LP would have to tour Italian universities after the ceremony. [Letter from LP to Marotta March 20, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.25]
• Letter from Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, to LP RE: Thanks LP for his opinions. [Letter from LP to Moe March 12, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
• Letter from L. A. Dubridge to Robert S. Farrar, Santa Ana City Schools, cc: LP, RE: Discusses an upcoming visit from Prof. Drahowzal to Caltech. Suggests that Drahowzal might find a more available position at USC or UCLA . [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1956), #128.21]
• Letter from LP to Abraham Lederman, Teachers Union of the City of New York, RE: Provides a statement to the Teachers Union as requested by Lederman congratulating the Union on its work. [Letter from Abraham Lederman to LP March 1, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence), #231.2]
• Letter from LP to B. Rajewsky, Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, RE: Discusses the possibility of Dr. Heinz Dannenberg's promotion to Wissenschaftlichen Mitglied of his Institute. Says he does not know Dannenberg well enough to make a statement about his personal qualifications. [Letter from Rajewsky to LP March 6, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1956), #341.2]
• Letter from LP to Joe Kainz, President, Illinois Chapter, Delta Upsilon, RE: Thanks Kainz for the invitation to speak at a dinner at the Delta Upsilon house. Suggests the date April 10. [Letter from Kainz to LP March 7, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.15]
• Letter from LP to Linus Pauling, Jr. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.037, Folder #37.8]

  14 March 1956

  Dear Anita and Linus:

  I note that I have forgotten one item, in reporting to you about the expenditures on the $50,000 fund.

  I have allocated $1200 of the fund as the salary for 3 months for Professor A. Christomanos.

  Professor Christomanos is the Professor of Chemistry in the University of Athens. He came here in September 1955, as the recipient of a Smith-Mundt Fellowship, with the plan of carrying on research in the field of Chromatographic analysis of proteins. I recommend that, after a preliminary period of devoted to learning the techniques of amino-acid chromatography from Dr. Walter A. Schroeder of our laboratories, he attack the problem of the nature of the end groups of the hemoglobin molecules in the blood of patients with phenylpyruvic oligophrenia. He has now begun work on this problem, which may throw some light on the nature of this kind of mental deficiency. The idea is that the presence of a large amount of phenylalanine in the body fluids of patients with this disease may cause abnormalities in the amino-acid composition of protein molecules, and Professor Christomanos will examine the amino acids at the free amino end of the polypeptide chains, and perhaps the adjacent ones also, to see whether a phenylalanine residue gets into these positions by mistake. Normally valine is present at the end of the polypeptide chains, and leucine in the second position.

  Dr. Christomanos has been effective in his work and wants to stay longer than the period for which his Smith-Mundt was originally granted. He applied for an extension, and was given a two months' extension, for the months of April and May. I then told him that we would give him an appointment for three more months, ending August 31, 1956. He should be able to do a good job on his problem in this time.

  Of course, if the Ford Foundation grant is made, I shall be able to transfer him to this budget.

  Mama and I are planning to spend the month of June in Europe. We probably shall leave Pasadena, on SAS, at midnight on Wednesday 30 May, flying from Copenhagen to London on Friday 1 June, and staying until Monday 4 June with Peter and Julia. Then on Monday we shall fly to Rome, in order that I may give the Avogadro Commemoration Lecture for the Academia dei Lincei. We shall stay in Italy until about 20 June. I don't know what we shall do then-perhaps return to London for a week, go to Copenhagen for a few days, and fly home early in July.

  Are you (Anita) going to stop to visit us on your way to Europe? We shall be away from Pasadena for some time, but shall be at home from 14 to 18 April, and from 9 to 30 May. Then we shall probably be home again after 8 July. I shall be busy during the summer in connection with my research programs, and I also hope to work on a new edition of THE NATURE OF THE CHEMICAL BOND.

  Love from

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to O. J. Walker, Chemical Institute of Canada, RE: Regrets that he cannot accept Walker's invitation to speak at the Western Regional Conference at Edmonton. [Letter from Walker to LP March 7, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1956), #444.4]
• Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.042, Folder #42.3]

  14 March 1956

  Dear Peter:

  Professor Corey and I, while thinking about our work during the coming year, have decided that we need to have advice. Will you write a few pages to me, answering the following questions?

  You know that only a little work has been done on crystalline globular proteins in our laboratory, and that we may well have used rather amateurish methods. During the coming year we hope to carry out a preliminary investigation, involving determination of the size of the unit and of the space group, for a considerable number of protein crystals, and we should like to do this preliminary work in the most expeditious manner. Would you be good enough to tell me how this job is done in Cambridge, and also to add any other information that you think pertinent? How do you grow the crystals? How do you mount them? What procedure do you follow in getting preliminary x-ray information, about size of unit and space group? Do you make use, for this purpose, primarily of precession cameras? If so, what dimensions are they, and what manufacturer? Can you get all of the information that you need from a single crystalline specimen, without changing its mounting? How do you determine the orientation of the crystal? How long does it take you to obtain this preliminary x-ray information, after you have got a good single crystal? So you make use of rotation photographs, or of Weissenberg photographs, also? If so, what sort of cameras do you use - what radius, etc.?

  Mama and I shall leave on 23 March, flying to Portland, then to Vancouver by night, from Vancouver by Canadian National to Winnipeg, where we arrive on Tuesday 27 March. We shall be in Winnipeg, care of the Department of Chemistry, until Saturday 31 March. We then stop for two days in Iowa, and on 4 April arrive in the University of Illinois, address Chemistry Department. We shall be in Illinois, with a short trip home from 14 to 18 April and a visit to Yale and Amherst the week of 23 April, until 5 May, and then return home, stopping for a day in Lawrence, Kansas. We then leave Los Angeles for Copenhagen on the night of Wednesday, 30 May, arriving the afternoon of Friday 1 June in London, by SK 501, at 1:15 P.M. We leave for Rome on Monday 4 June, about noon. We expect then to return to London about 20 June, for another week, to go to Copenhagen for a few days, and on home. The W.H. Freeman Company is celebrating its tenth anniversary on 6 and 7 July, and we are rather committed to be there.

  Much love to you and Julia,

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from LP to Richard A. Ogg, Jr., Stanford University, RE: Discusses his opinion on a problem regarding the structure of aluminum borohydride. Says he has not reached a completely satisfactory conclusion. [Letter from Ogg, Jr. to LP March 7, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence, 1956), #300.18]
• Letter from LP to Sherman E. Smith, University of New Mexico, RE: Informs that he has invited R. Buckminister Fuller to visit Caltech as suggested in Smith's March 1 letter. [Letter from Smith to LP March 1, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
• Letter from LP to William Moffitt, Harvard University, RE: Addresses concerns stated by Moffitt about the position of Associate Professor he has been offered at Caltech. Discusses salary, office space and sabbatical years. [Letter from LP to Moffitt March 9, 1956, Letter from DuBridge to Moffitt April 3, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
• Letter from Professor M. Kirsch, Chemistry Dept., University of British Columbia, to LP RE: LP will address the Chemical Institute of Canada in the Faculty Club Lounge on March 24 at 8:15 PM on "The Structure of Proteins." Will meet LP's train and take him to the Hotel Vancouver. Would like to bring LP to visit campus whenever he is free in the afternoon. Plans to entertain LP and AHP at dinner on Saturday evening. [Letter from LP to Kirsch March 9, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.8]
• Letter from Professor R.E. Rundle, Chemistry Dept., Iowa State College, to Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, RE: LP is scheduled to speak on April 2 at 8 PM. A dinner party is scheduled prior to the lecture. Has made reservations for LP and AHP at the Memorial Union on campus for April 1 and 2. Rundle will meet their flight in Des Moines and see that they make their train on Tuesday. [Letter from Wulf to Rundle March 12, 1956, Letter from Rundle to LP May 28, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.12]
• Letter from Professor Ralph L. Shriner, Chemistry Dept., State University of Iowa, to LP RE: Will meet LP and AHP's train at 4:07 PM on April 3 and will take care of them during the afternoon and evening. There will be a small group together for dinner and then the lecture will be held at 7:30 PM in the Chemistry Auditorium. This will allow ample time for LP and AHP to catch their 11:10 PM train to Chicago. Offers to help if their travel arrangements do not work out. [Letter from Wulf to Shriner March 12, 1956, Letter from Shriner to LP May 7, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.13]
• Letter from R.V. Bartz, Office for Industrial Associates, CIT, to Dr. W.J. Coopoc, Manager of Research, Texas Company, RE: LP is arranging to visit Beacon Laboratories on April 24. Would be happy to give a talk on ferromagnetism and the structure of metals generally. LP might change the date to April 25, but he would inform Bartz accordingly. [Letter from Coopoc to Bartz March 20, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.18]
• Letter from the Registrar, University of Poona, India, to LP, Irving M. Clotz and G. I. Finch RE: Invites the three men to act as referees in the matter of M. S. Narsinga Rao's thesis on "A Physico-chemical study of Metal-Protein Interactions." [Letter from Wulf to Registrar April 23, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1956), #313.4]