Nobel Prize for Peace. December 10, 1963. Medal - Obverse  Larger Images / More Information.

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• Card from V. Seardigli to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h5, Folder #1963h5.4]
• Guest List: Dinner 10th of December 1963. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Materials re: Nobel Peace Prize, 1963), Box #1963h2, Folder #1963h2.10]
• Handwritten letter from Peter Dvergodal to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.4]
• Handwritten note from Avid Gusfod to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962 and welcomes him to Trondheim. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.7]
• Hotel bill: Grand Hotel, Oslo [Filed under LP Travel, Box #1.003, Folder 3.3] 
• Invoice from Ward & Paul, Inc. to Green, Hennings, Henry, Evans & Arnold RE: Total of $13.10.  [Statement from Green, Hennings, Henry, Evans & Arnold to LP June 15, 1965] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.062, Folder #62.1]
• Letter from Alden Emery, Executive Secretary, American chemical Society, to LP . RE: Emery is sorry to hear that LP wishes to resign from the ACS. He feels that he can't turn LP's letter over to the appropriate individuals for processing without urging LP to reconsider. Emery says that as active as LP is in two distinct fields, he should indicate publicly through membership in appropriate organizations his interests. He hoes to hear from LP soon. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2, Folder 2.013, Item 13.46]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, American Chemical Society, to LP RE: Urges LP not to resign from the American Chemical Society and states that he is not recording LP’s resignation at this time and hopes to hear back from him. [Letter from LP to Emery June 19, 1963, Letter from LP to Emery March 9, 1964] [Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964), Box #14.006 Folder #6.5]
• Letter from C.M. Jones to LP RE: Jones congratulates LP on his work for peace.  Jones hopes that she will see LP again some day when he visits Washington again.  Jones encloses a photo of her and her flowers.  [Letter from LP to Jones January 24, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: J: Correspondence, 1933-1934, 1936-1964: Box #192 Folder #192.30]
• Letter from Dr. J. W. Linnett, The Queen’s College, to LP RE: Is pleased that LP is agreeable to having his new book dedicated to him. Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. [Letter from LP to Linnett December 4, 1963] [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.5]
• Letter from Frederic W. Nielsen to LP RE: Thanks him for his response to his request for becoming a friend of the Gremium of the Kleine Stadt. Informs that he will do his utmost to create a safe home for the poor handicapped children. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N:Correspondence, 1963), #288.7] 
• Letter from George G. Hill, Division of Peace and World Order, Peace Education Program, to Gentlemen, The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, RE: Makes a proposal of an appropriate Living Memorial dedicated to science in the pursuit of peace.  Suggests that a “commission for a Human Society” be convened by the Weizmann Institute. [Letter from Hill to LP December 10, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence:(H: Correspondence, 1963) #169.1]
• Letter from George G. Hill, Division of Peace and World Order, Peace Education Program, to LP RE: Hopes that LP will be interested in an enclosed letter he has written to The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science. [Letter from Hill to Gentlemen December 10, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence:(H: Correspondence, 1963) #169.1]
• Letter from Joe Capsin to LP RE: Encloses a letter by Bettejo Dux and provides her address if LP has time to write her a “thank you” note. [Newspaper Clipping: Pauling Gets His Prize at Nobel Rites in Oslo December 10, 1963, Note from Capsin to LP December 11, 1963] [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.43] 
• Letter from Johs Johnsen to LP RE: Written in Swedish. [Filed under LP Correspondence:(J: Correspondence) #192.29]
• Letter from Kay Hardman to LP, RE: Hardman would like to know whom LP prefers to interview him at the January 17th meeting of Women Strike for Peace and also what the title of his talk will be.  Hardman hopes to learn of this information soon so that tickets may be printed up and so that the publicity for the event can commence.  [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Wo), Box #4.016, Folder #16.2]
• Letter from LP [Signed by HPG] to Francis M. Lee RE: States that there is a small possibility that vibrations set up by the nuclear blasts would cause motion of the earth giving rise to an earthquake. Informs that it is better for the stress to be relieved by small earthquakes than big ones built up over time. [Letter from Lee to LP November 4, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1961-1963), #232.3]
• Letter from LP [Signed by Helen Gilrane] to G.C. Blake, RE: In response to Blake’s request for LP’s interest in his story of research done for the cure of cancer, LP says he is not willing to examine case histories because he doesn’t have the background in medicine. He says that he would like Dr. Beard to send him the chemical constitution of the substance, laetrile. [Letter from Blake to LP November 4, 1963]  [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence), #40.2]
• Letter from LP [Signed by Helen Gilrane] to Genzaburo Yoshino, Iwanami Shoten Publishers, RE: Explains that he has been devoting his time to the preparation of his Nobel Address and has not, therefore, had time to write an article as requested by Yoshino.  Encloses a copy of his Nobel Address. [Letter from Yoshino to LP October 30, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (I: Correspondence, 1963) #185.24]       
• Letter from LP to Alois Stoff. RE: Informs him that he would like to start his lecture tour in Lindau on the 27 or 28 of June, and to devote a week or ten days to the tour. Asks him to wait til January to arrange it. [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s Folder #1964s.25] 
• Letter from LP to Donald V. Goudy, Canadian Weekly, RE: LP sends a manuscript of his ideas about “preserving peace and saving the world from nuclear war.” [Letter from Goudy to LP November 28, 1963] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: (Manuscripts and Typescripts of Articles by LP, 1963), Box #1963a2, Folder #1963a2.9]
• Letter from LP to Dr. W. Leroy Garth RE: Thanks him for his kind letter and for the copy of the letter to the Editors of Life Magazine. [Letter from Garth to LP October 29, 1963] [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Materials re: Nobel Peace Prize, 1963), Box #1963h2, Folder #1963h2.6]
• Letter from LP to John. H. Bowers, Minister of Education, Fountain Street Church RE: Thanks Bowers for his letter of congratulations. [Letter from Bowers to LP November 8, 1963] [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.2]
• Letter from LP, signed by Helen Gilrane to Grasmuier, Editor-in-Chief, Norddeutsche Zeitung, RE: Sends a statement about his hopes for the coming year, relating to the steps to be taken in order to increase safety in a nuclear world. [Letter from Grasmuier to LP November 27, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N:Correspondence, 1963), #288.7]
• Letter from Rose Vassallo to LP RE: Vassallo congratulates LP on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.  She also explains a story she wrote to him. [Letter from LP to Vassallo December 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (V: Correspondence, 1933-1969) #427.23]
• Medal: Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, Nobel Prize for Peace for 1962, Medal, Certificate. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: 1963h2.1] 
• Newspaper Clipping: “1962 Nobel Prize Presented to Pauling,” Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Journal, December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.49]
• Newspaper Clipping: “50 millioner til 340 Nobelpristagere,” Publication Unknown, December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.53]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Excerpts from Linus Pauling’s Letters to Son,” Honolulu (Hawaii) Star-Bulletin, December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.45]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Hvem er Linus Pauling?,” Morgenbladet (Norway), December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.47]
• Newspaper Clipping: “I professor Linus Paulings følge,” Morgenposten (Oslo), December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.54]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Letters to the Editor: Applauds Editorial”, by Douglas C. Ford, Honolulu (Hawaii) Advertiser, December 10, 1963. Handwritten note to LP on the page from Joe Capsin. [Newspaper Clipping: “The Unintelligent Way” December 7, 1963] [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.40]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Linus Pauling er optimist”, Aftenposten (Oslo), December 10 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.48]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Linus Pauling: Videnskapsmenn Bør Velges Inn I Parlamentene,” Morgenbladet (Norway), December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.47]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Morgenbladet fortsetter hetsen mot Pauling,” Dagbladet (Oslo), December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.52]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Pauling Accepts Award, Sees World Without War,” Honolulu (Hawaii) Star-Bulletin, December 10, 1963. [Correspondence included]. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.42]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Pauling Accepts Award, Sees World Without War,” Honolulu Star-Bulletin. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Materials re: Nobel Peace Prize, 1963), Box #1963h2, Folder #1963h2.10]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Pauling Awaiting Peace Prize Is Optimistic,” Sacramento (California) Union, December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n5: Folder #1963n5.1]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Pauling Gets His Prize at Nobel Rites in Oslo,” Honolulu (Hawaii) Star-Bulletin, December 10, 1963. [Letter from Capsin to LP December 10, 1963, Note from Capsin to LP December 11, 1963]. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.43]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Pauling Gets Nobel Prize, Foresees Warless World,” Sacramento (California) Bee, December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n5: Folder #1963n5.2]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Pauling Visions Peace,” Pasadena (California) Star-News, December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.41]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Pauling ikke sikker på hvorfor han fikk prisen,” Vårt Land (Oslo), December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.55]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Pauling ser fremtiden lyst imøte,” Morgenposten (Oslo), December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.44]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Pauling vet ikke hva han skal bruke fredsprisen til,” Publication Unknown, December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.51]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Pauling-tilhenger presenterte Pauling for Nobel-komiteen,” Morgenbladet (Norway), December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.47]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Tanker om fred,” Morgenbladet (Norway), December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.50]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Utdeling av fredsprisen og de andre Nobelprisene,” Arbeiderbladet (Oslo), December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.46]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Verdensfred om tjue år,” Arbeiderbladet (Oslo), December 10, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n4: Folder #1963n4.56]
• Note from H.G. Cooling to LP RE: Note is illegible.
• Note from Science World to LP RE: Encloses an edition for LP and says he might be interested in page 16. [Newsletter Article: “Science in the News,” November 8, 1963] [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n3, Folder #1963n3.70]
• Note: “Avec les compliments du Directeur general de postes de Suede a l'occasion de 60e anniversaire de l'attribution de Prix Nobel de l'annee 1903.” (French: With the compliments of the managing director of stations of Sweden at the time of 60th birthday of the attribution of Nobel Prize of the year 1903.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Materials re: Nobel Peace Prize, 1963), Box #1963h2, Folder #1963h2.10]       
• Photo: Linus Pauling showing the Nobel peace prize to Ava Helen Pauling. “B/Oslo/Norway photo, December 10th, 1963. Admiring the peace prize gold medal Mrs. Ava Pauling is admiring her husband’s, Dr. Linus Pauling’s Nobel Peace Prize medal after the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in the Aula of the University of Olso. (NTB-photo). / Ava Helen Pauling    #13 Page 146, Linus Pauling on Peace, Rising Star Press 650/966-8920   110   1740 / Copyright Norsk Tleegrambyra’s billed - OG Klisfeavdeling A/S   Nedre Vollgt 8 - Postboks 818, Tlf. 33 36 90 - Telex nr. 1366 Telegr.: Norway photo   Oslo - Norway European Pressphoto Agencies Union” Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #1349]  [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1963i.10]
• Photo: Linus Pauling standing, holding a small box in his hands. “NORWAY PHOTO 10th 1963 / Nobel Peace Prize to Dr. Linus Pauling / president of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, dir. Gunnar John handing the Nobel Peace Prize and Gold Medal to Dr. Linus Pauling, the Peace Prize winner of / The ceremony took place in Oslo 10th. (NTB-photo)” Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #1362]  [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1963i.11]
• Postcard from James E. Pritchard to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Reminds LP to be fair to those who he might disagree with. [Letter from LP to Pritchard May 11, 1964] [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h5, Folder #1963h5.2]
• Receipt from First Western Bank to AHP RE: “Return Item Debit.” $100.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP December 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Schedule: 1 PM Nobel Prize meeting; Nobel dinner in the evening [Filed under LP Travel, Box #1.003, Folder 3.3] 
• Statement from TIAA CREF: Life insurance premium of $487.40.  Identification Cards: LP and AHP for Central Mutual Insurance Company. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.042 Folder #42.7]
• Telegram from Fagforeningen Nordens Klippe (Norwegian: Labor Movement North Clip), to LP RE: Congratulates LP for having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Materials re: Nobel Peace Prize, 1963), Box #1963h2, Folder #1963h2.6]
• Telegram from Joergen Jensen Danish Peacecommity to LP RE: Inquires whether LP could come to Copenhagen to speak at a public meeting during his stay in Scandinavia.  [Filed under LP Correspondence:(J: Correspondence) #192.29]
• Typescript, “Response by Linus Pauling, Nobel Ceremony, Oslo.” [Filed under LP Correspondence: Russell, Bertrand, 1955-1967: Box #337 Folder #337.7] 
• Typescript: Address delivered in the Festival Hall of the University of Oslo, Norway, by Gunnar Jahn, on the occasion of the presentation of the Nobel Prize for Peace. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Materials re: Nobel Peace Prize, 1963), Box #1963h2, Folder #1963h2.8]
• Typescript: “Address on the occasion of the presentation of the Nobel Prize for Peace to LP”, by Gunnar Jahn, University of Oslo. [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1963: Box # 1963s, Folder #1963s.21].
• Typescript: “Response by LP”, Nobel Ceremony , Oslo. [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1963: Box # 1963s, Folder #1963s.21] 

  RESPONSE BY LINUS PAULING

  NOBEL CEREMONY, OSLO 10

  DECEMBER 1963

  I shall not attempt to conceal from you the fact that I am a happy man today. I have been a happy man throughout my adult life ~ and here I acknowledge that for over forty years my wife has been largely responsible for my condition — but today I am especially happy, in that I am the fortunate recipient of the greatest honor that any person can be given — the Nobel Peace Prize.

  I express my heartfelt gratitude to the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament for having selected me for this great honor; to all of the people of Norway; and to those people all over the world whose striving for peace has led to a degree of success such as to permit me to be here today.

  For I know that this Prize is a recognition not of my work alone but also the work of many other people who have striven to bring hope for permanent peace to a world that now contains nuclear weapons that might destroy our civilization; and especially of the scientists who have engaged in this effort - Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Alexander Topchiev, Hideki Yukawa, and thousands of others.

  I remember Alfred Nobel's statement in 1892, as reported by Bertha von Suttner: "My factories may well put an end to war sooner than your [peace] congresses. The day when two army corps can annihilate one another in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops."

  We have now reached the day when not just two army corps but two great nations have the power to annihilate one another in a period little longer than one second; and we have learned that not only the explosives factories but also the peace congresses are necessary to get the civilized nations to recoil from war and discharge their troops. But this wonderful process is now going on; we are beginning to move toward the world of peace and disarmament foreseen by Alfred Nobel, in which the only war waged by humanity will be the war against disease and misery.

  There is an interesting similarity between the life of Alfred Nobel and my life; closer, I am sure, than for any earlier recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Alfred Nobel was a chemical engineer and chemist, with a deep antipathy for war. I was educated as a chemical engineer and chemist, and I have striven to eliminate war from the world. Most of Nobel's 355 patents dealt with explosives. Two of my four patents are on explosives. Among the many subjects that Nobel listed as worthy of study by him there are a number that I have investigated. These include not only explosives and world peace, but also chemical nomenclature, atomic structure, the interactions between atoms, blood transfusion, the functions of the brain, thought and memory, and the philosophy of cells and the cosmos. And Nobel was full of ideas; he said "If I have a thousand ideas a year, and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied." I, too, am full of ideas; and I would be satisfied with one good idea per year.

  I wish that Alfred Nobel had been able to live until now, when his great goal of a world without war is in sight. He has been described as a pessimist; but he was clearly an optimist, in that he thought that it was worthwhile to encourage work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. I too am an optimist, and I am glad that in a short period of time, during the last two decades, there has come into existence the machine that Nobel wanted to invent, the "machine with such terrible power of mass destruction that war would thereby be made impossible forever."

  I wish that Alfred Nobel had not been a lonely man. I have not been lonely. Since 1923 I have had always at my side my wife, Ava Helen Pauling. In the fight for peace and against oppression she has been my constant and courageous companion and coworker. On her behalf, as well as my own, I express my thanks to Alfred Nobel and to the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962."

• Typescript: “Response by Linus Pauling,” Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Oslo. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Materials re: Nobel Peace Prize, 1963), Box #1963h2, Folder #1963h2.8]