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Major Events

  • Pauling is appointed Director of the Gates Laboratory and Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Before accepting the position, he insists on the title of director as well as chairman, and, commensurate with his great services to CIT, his salary must be raised to $9,000 in 1938. In his earlier refusal, Pauling was clear-headed enough to see that he was not being given sufficient power to run the division in the way he would like, and he was not willing to accept the heavy responsibilities of the post unless he was given real administrative authority.
  • Pauling and S.H. Bauer publish an important paper on the structure of pentaborane.
  • During the summer, Pauling attacks the problem of the folding of the polypeptide chain in the protein alpha keratin by using molecular models, but he has no success and concludes that one or more of his assumptions (for example, a planar peptide group and bond lengths as in simple substances) must be wrong (it later turns out that his assumptions are valid and this preliminary conclusion is incorrect).
  • At the end of the summer (and at the urging of Pauling), Robert B. Corey comes to CIT from the Rockefeller Institute on a postdoctoral fellowship. Pauling gives Corey the task of determining the structures of amino acids and simple peptides (with the view of ultimately solving the problem of the general three-dimensional structure of proteins).
  • On June 4, Edward Crellin, his third son and last child, is born.
  • Pauling is George Fisher Baker Lecturer in Chemistry at Cornell University from September 1937 to February 1938. His course on the nature of the chemical bond is based, in large part, on the classic series of papers he published in the early 1930’s.
Chronology by Robert Paradowski.

Travel

 Corvallis, OR 
 Ithaca, NY (20)
 Rochester, NY (4)
 Ithaca, NY (50)
 transit to Pasadena, CA (3)
See the Paulings' activities in January 1937
See the Paulings' activities in January 1937

Snapshot

The Pauling family with Ava Helen's mother, Nora Gard Miller. Front row, left to right: Linda Pauling, Nora Gard Miller, and Peter Pauling. Back row: Linus, Jr., Ava Helen, and Linus Pauling Picture. 1937
The Pauling family with Ava Helen's mother, Nora Gard Miller. Front row, left to right: Linda Pauling, Nora Gard Miller, and Peter Pauling. Back row: Linus, Jr., Ava Helen, and Linus Pauling 1937. Larger Image / More Information

Statistics

  • 1278 activity listings
  • 52 scanned documents
  • 118 full-text transcripts

Activity Listings - 1937 (No Date)

  • "Calculation of ion deformation in the lattice of wurtzite," by Tibor Neugebauer. [Filed under: LP Books, 1939b2.3]
  • "The free rotation of the C-C bond in ethane and butadiene," by E. Bartholeme and J. Karwell. [Filed under: LP Books, 1939b2.1]
  • Diary: 2x3" plain diary labeled "Address" on the cover, and "1937" on the front page in LP's writing. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 4, Folder 4.008]
  • Division of Chemistry Budget Estimate 1937-38 [LP Biographical: Academia Box 1.031, Folder 1]
  • Manuscript notes and slides RE: EuSO4 and BaSO4 [LP Science Box 3.003, Folder 26]
  • Manuscript: LP, "On the Structure of Antibodies and Other Proteins." [LP Manuscripts of Articles, 1937a.2]
  • Mizushima S, Uehara Y, Morino Y. 1937. The OH-vibration Spectrum in the Photographic Infrared. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan 12 (3): 132-135. [Filed under LP Books, 1939b.4]
  • Newspaper clipping: "Pauling Heads CalTech Dept.," Examiner. [LP Scrapbooks 6.003, p. 2]
  • Newspaper clipping: "Pauling at New Post at Cal-Tech," Herald Express. [LP Scrapbooks 6.003.2]
  • No date: Letter from Chas A. Peltcher to CIT RE: Asks what needs to be done to obtain a water sample analysis. [Filed under: P: Correspondence, Box #312.1]
  • No date: Letter from Roger Williams to LP RE: Informs LP of an opening at UCLA and asks LP for his opinion of this job while asking for a recommendation as well. [Filed under: Williams, Roger, J.-Box #436.1]
  • Notes: Card citing: Nilakantan P. Physical Review 52 383 (1937). "Magnetic anisotropy of NH4NO3 confirms Hendricks' transitions." [LP Science Box 1.001, Folder 4]
  • Notes: Citation: Kinsey EL, Ellis JW. Rotation of Water in CS2 solution shown by infrared abs. spec. Physical Review 51, 1074 (1937) [LP Science Box 1.001, Folder 4]
  • Photo: Ava Helen Pauling holding baby Crellin Pauling. Peter Pauling walking out of picture. "Crellin Pauling / 2 months / Peter / A.H.P. / 1937." Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #603] [LP Photo Box, 1937i.3]
  • Photo: Ava Helen, Crellin, and Peter Pauling. Ava Helen holding Crellin. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #623] [LP Photo Box, 1937i.10]
  • Photo: Crellin, Linus, Peter, Linus Jr., and Linda Pauling sitting outdoors. Linus holding baby Crellin. "Dr. Pauling (Linus) Sr. + family / 520" [Printed on the back of the photo] Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #1556, #604] [LP Photo Box, 1937i.17]
  • Photo: Front row, left to right: Ava Helen, Crellin, Peter, and Linus Pauling. Back row: Linda Pauling. Ava Helen holding baby Crellin. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #620] [LP Photo Box, 1937i.7]
  • Photo: Front row, left to right: Linda Pauling, Nora Miller, and Peter Pauling. Back row: Linus Jr., Ava Helen, and Linus Pauling. "AHP / LP / Nora Gard Miller / Linus Jr. / Peter / Linda / about 1937." Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #594] [LP Photo Box, 1937i.2]
  • Photo: Howard J. Lucas, Arnold O. Beckman, Bruce K. Sage, James E. Bell, Don M. Yost, Roscoe G. Dickinson, Linus Pauling, William N. Lacey. Chemistry Department, California Institute of Technology, 1937. Print courtesy of the Archives, California Institute of Technology. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [LP Photo Box, 1937i.1]
  • Photo: Linus Pauling Jr. standing outdoors, holding a cat. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #898] [LP Photo Box, 1937i.20]
  • Photo: Linus Pauling Jr., Linda Pauling, Nora Miller, and Peter Pauling outdoors. Linus Jr. holding a small kitten. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #595, #571] [LP Photo Box, 1937i.4]
  • Photo: Linus and Peter Pauling sitting on a bench outside. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #584] [LP Photo Box, 1937i.6]
  • Photo: Linus, Crellin, Peter and Linus Pauling Jr. sitting on a bench outside. Linus holding baby Crellin. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #605] [LP Photo Box, 1937i.5]
  • Publication: "A quantitative discussion of bond orbitals," LP and J. Sherman. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 59, pp. 1450-1456. [LP Publications: 1937p.7]
  • Publication: "Carbon-carbon bond distances. The electron diffraction investigation of ethane, propane, isobutane, neopentane, cyclopropane, cyclopentane, cyclohexane, allene, ethylene, isobutane, tetramethylene, mesitylene, and hexamethylbenzene," LP. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 59, pp. 1223-1236. [LP Publication: 1937p.6]
  • Publication: "Report on the X-ray study of the isomorphism of compounds of bivalent europium and barium," LP. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 59, pp. 1132-1133. [LP Publications: 1937p.5]
  • Publication: "Review of Magnetochemie [Magnetochemistry] by Dr. Wilhelm Klemm," LP. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 59, pp. 1157-1160. [LP Publications: 1937p.9]
  • Publication: "The adjacent charge rule and the structure of methyl azide, methyl nitrate, and fluorine nitrate," LP and L. O. Brockway. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 59, pp. 13-20. [LP Publications: 1937p.3]
  • Publication: "The crystal structure of aluminum metaphosphate, Al(PO3)3," LP and J. Sherman. Z. Kristall, A 96 pp. 481-487. [LP Publications: 1937p.1]
  • Publication: "The magnetic properties and structure of ferrihemoglobin (methemoglobin) and some of its compounds," LP, Charles D. Coryell and Fred Stitt. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 59, pp. 633-642. [LP Publication: 1937p.4]
  • Reprint: "The OH-Vibration Spectrum in the Photographic Infrared," by San-ichiro Mizushima, Yasuo Uehara and Yonezo Morino. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 132-135. [LP Books, 1939b.2]
  • Reprint: A Theoretical Study of Magnetic Cooling Experiments, written by E. M. Purcelll. [Filed under: Van Vleck, J. H. Correspondence, Box #424.5]
  • Reprint: Current Science-Laue Diagrams [Filed under: LP Correspondence, Box #213.4]
  • Reprint: On the Anisotropy of Cubic Ferromagnetic Crystals, written by J. H. Van Vleck, December 1, 1937. [Filed under: Van Vleck, J. H. Correspondence and Reprints, Box #424.5]
  • Reprint: On the Role of Dipole-Dipole Coupling in Dielectric Media, written by J. H. Van Vleck. [Filed under: Van Vleck, J. H. Correspondence and Reprints, Box #424.5]
  • Reprint: Revised Calculations of the Translational Fluctuation Effect in Gaseous Dielectrics, written by J. H. Van Vleck. [Filed under: Van Vleck, J. H: Correspondence and Reprints #424.5]
  • Reprint: The Influence of Dipole-Dipole Coupling on the Specific Heat and Susceptibility of a Paramagnetic Salt, written by J. H. Van Vleck. [Filed under: Van Vleck, J. H. Box #424.5]
  • Reprint: The Puzzle of Rare-Earth Spectra in Solids, written by J. H. Van Vleck. [Filed under Box #424.5]
  • Research Notebooks of LP, RNB 09 RE: Note on potential due to hydrogen-like wave functions. [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 9: 037]
  • Research Notebooks of LP, RNB 16 RE: Note on Baker resident lecture at Cornell (1937-38). [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 16: 030]
  • Research Notebooks of LP, RNB 16 RE: Note on research men, potential research problem (1936-37) [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 16: 028]