Letter from Linus Pauling to Louis Bogart. March 11, 1957. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from AHP to Berlitz School of Languages for $200.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
• Check from LP to Scandinavian Art Metal Inc. for $102.88. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
• Letter from Barry Commoner, Washington University, to LP RE: Writes that he is very excited LP accepted the invitation to speak at Washington University and asks if LP would like him to set up hotel reservations for LP and AHP for the time they will be there. [Letter from LP to Commoner March 6, 1957, Letter from LP to Commoner April 15, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.19]
• Letter from Dr. John Kirkwood, Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Yale University to LP RE: Notifies him that the department will have an instructorship opening next year. Requests that if anyone at Cal Tech is interested they write to Dr. Kirkwood directly. [Letter from LP to Dr. Kirkwood March 14, 1957, Letter from Dr. Kirkwood to LP April 2, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Kirkwood, John G., 1937-1941, 1948-1949, 1951-1953, 1955-1957), #198.11]
• Letter from Dr. Modesto Bargallo, to LP RE: Thanks him for the picture that he sent for the chemistry book they are publishing in Mexico. [Letter from Dr. Bargallo to LP February 23, 1957, Letter from LP to Dr. Bargallo March 7, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1957), #38.3]
• Letter from Dr. Richard W. Lippman to Mrs. Frank R. Riva [Margaret M.] RE: Thanks her for her letter the letter from Dr. Jervais. Lippman has no additional suggestions for her children but will inform her if any new developments that would help her children are made. [Letters from Riva to Lippman March 8, 1957, March 15, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: Orthomolecular Medicine and Mental Health: Materials re: Ford Foundation grants for the study of mental disorders, 1955-1956: Box #11.089, Folder 89.7]
• Letter from LP to David Tyler of University of Puerto Rico RE: Is unsure if there is room at Caltech for Tyler to continue his research there. [Letter from David Tyler to LP February 21, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Tyler, David), #408.11]
• Letter from LP to Dr. David B. Tyler, School of Medicine at the University of Puerto Rico, RE: Explains that the space in CIT's laboratory is filling up quickly, so he can not predict whether or not the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering would provide space for Tyler to continue the work he is interested in there. Says that since that they are concentrating on mental deficiency under their Ford Foundation, it would probably be in Tyler's interest to work in another laboratory. Explains that they have close connection with the California State Department of Mental Hygiene. [Letter from Tyler to LP, February 21, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Individual Correspondence. (Topchiev - Tyler)), Box #408, Folder #408.11]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Oleg Jardetzky RE: Notifies him of an article he read by P. Debye which suggests a new way to find ionic masses in solutions. Requests he try to read about the experiments done to support this new idea. [Letter from LP to Dr. Jardetzky January 30, 1957, Letter from LP to Dr. Jardetzky February 4, 1957, Letter from LP to Dr. Jardetzky February 6, 1957, Letter from LP to Dr. Jardetzky March 4, 1957, Letter from LP to Dr. Jardetzky March 5, 1957, Letter from LP to Dr. Jardetzky April 3, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Jardetzky, Oleg and Christine, 1956-1959, 1962-1964, 1967-1969, 1971-1975, 1977, 1979-1982, 1984-1985, 1990, 1993-1994), #188.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Robert N. Feinstein, Chairman, Program Committee, Chicago Section, American Chemical Society RE: Tells him the title of his talk for the Chicago section of the ACS and encloses the requested background information. [Letter from Dr. Feinstein to LP March 6, 1957, Letter from Dr. Feinstein to LP April 5, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.16]
• Letter from LP to Henri Levy, RE: Thanks Levy for his letter about Tom Underwood. LP is pretty sure that he [Underwood] said that his farm was on the river by Oak Ridge. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Deer Flat Ranch: Correspondence, 1957-1995), Box #4.047, Folder #47.1]
• Letter from LP to Peter J. Stupin, Chairman, Committee of Awards, American Institute of Chemists, Western Chapter RE: Recommends Mr. Peter C.H. Jordan for the Student Medal Award for 1957. Also states that LP will not be able to attend the awards ceremony but suggests they invite Dr. Gunnar Bergman, with whom Mr. Jordan worked. Includes a completed questionnaire about Mr. Jordan. [Letter from Mr. Stupin to LP February 25, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (American Institute of Chemists, 1945, 1952-1958, 1963, 1969, 1971, 1977-1987) #10.4]
• Letter from LP to Professor Roger J. Williams, Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas, RE: Thanks Williams for the copy of his book BIOCHEMICAL INDIVIDUALITY and that he feels it is important to study to biochemical differences between different human beings. Says that he wishes they could get together to discuss their mutual interest in mental disease. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Williams, Roger J., 1936-1991), Box #436, Folder #436.10]
• Letter from LP, to Dr. Louis Bogart. [Letter from Dr. Bogart to LP March 7, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1957), #38.3]

  11 March 1957

  Dear Mr. Bogart:

  I have been pleased to receive your letter of 7 March, and interested to read your manuscript on a possible means of mapping complex molecular structures.

  I must say that I do not know enough about the practical problems of detecting the flow of very small quantities of energy, nor, indeed, about moving a probe relative to a surface in such a way that the position of the atomic point of the probe would be significant to within a fraction of an atomic diameter. Nevertheless, I feel that your idea deserves to be given serious consideration. I remember reading in NATURE, some ten or fifteen years ago (perhaps even longer), an account of work done by an English investigator. He had fastened a needle to the mirror of an interferometer in such a way that he could raise the needle, move it a small distance, and drop it down again, until it came into contact with the freshly cleaved surface of a piece of mica. He determined the vertical coordinate for a fiducial point on the needle after each change in position, and he found that the vertical coordinates were integral multiples of 10 Å, relative to an arbitrary origin. Ten Å is known, from x-ray diffraction, to be the thickness of a single aluminosilicate layer in the mica crystal. Accordingly by this method of mechanical measurement he was able to show that mica consists of layers 10 Å thick.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling :W

  Mr. Louis Bogart

  Levinthal Electronic Products, Inc.

  Palo Alto, California

• Letter from W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Company Publishers to LP RE: Clarifies a statement that he made about an early textbook that LP used in one of his college courses. Requests to know whether the basis of his statement was correct. [Letter from LP to Mr. Freeman March 14, 1957] [Filed under LP Books: 1953b.1]
• Letter from Walt A. Raitt, Director, Peace Education Program, American Friends Service Committee to LP RE: Outlines what the committee would like him to cover in his talk at the Santa Barbara World Affairs Institute. Invites him to tea and dinner before the Institute meeting. [Letter from Mr. Raitt to LP February 19, 1957, Letter from Mrs. Fingarette to LP and AHP March 25, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.10]
• Memo from LP to Oleg Jardetzky RE: Suggests he look through a paper by P. Debye, J called "A Method for the Determination of the Mass of Electrolytic Ions" for help to discover whether or not anything was obtained from the experiments. [Memo from Oleg Jardetzky to LP February 4, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: Box #1.002, Folder #2.15]
• Research Notebook of LP RE: Uses vectors to evaluate metallic complexes and proteins, along with several theoretical problems to solve pp. 103, 105, 107-108. [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: 29R]