December 11, 1954 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Copy of letter from D.S. Brennan to the U.S. Weather Bureau RE: Suggestion to take action and notify people of increased radioactive particles in the air. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.21, file: (B correspondence, 1954)]

Dinner at 7:30 p. m at the Royal Palace, given by Their Majesties, the King and Queen.

LP Awards, Box 1954h2.8

Letter from Harry Gustkey to LP RE: Requesting LP's signature. [Filed under G Correspondence 1954, Box #140.18]

Letter from Takayoshi Hakui to LP RE: Hakui requests LP find someone to sponsor him and pay for his education/living in America (he is a Japanese high school student). [Filed under H Correspondence 1954, Box #166.5]

Newspaper Clipping: "Allvar och livsgladje pa Nobelbankett i hav av nejlikor", Svenska Dagbaldet, December 11, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.98]

Newspaper Clipping: "Allvar och livsgldje p ...", [title indecipherable] Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm), December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.20]

Newspaper Clipping: "Caltech's Pauling Wins Nobel Prize", Daily News, December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.24]

Newspaper Clipping: "Congratulations for Nobel Winner", New York Times, December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.13]

Newspaper Clipping: "Glansande Hylling Till Polioforskare", Dagens Nyheter, December 11, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.103]

Newspaper Clipping: "Glansande Nobnelfesti stralkastarljus", Svenska Dagbladet [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.119]

Newspaper Clipping: "Glnsande Nobelfest i Stlkastarljus", Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm), December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.15]

Newspaper Clipping: "Glnsande Nobelfest i strlkastarljus", Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm), December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.21]

Newspaper Clipping: "Glnsande hyllning till polioforskare" Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.23]

Newspaper Clipping: "Han vgade ej bjuda upp", Aftonbladet (Sweden), December 12, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.8]

Newspaper Clipping: "Happy Nobel Prize Winner", Los Angeles Times, December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.7]

Newspaper Clipping: "Hemingway's Nobel Prize Awarded him in Absentia", New York Herald Tribune, December 11, 1954.

Newspaper Clipping: "Hemingway, Pauling Among 7 Feted in Nobel Prize Rite", Los Angeles Examiner, December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.10]

Newspaper Clipping: "Hemingway, Six Others Receive Nobel Awards", Los Angeles Times [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.113]

Newspaper Clipping: "Hemingway, Six Others Receive Nobel Awards", Los Angeles Times, December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.19]

Newspaper Clipping: "Hemingways Halsning: Varje Bok en ny Borjan", Dagens Nyheter [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.98]

Newspaper Clipping: "Kemi-Pauling Djrvaste Profilen", Kvallsupplaga Aftonbladet (Sweden), December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.4]

Newspaper Clipping: "Konstnrinnan b akom Nobeldiplomen Fick Ta ck-brev Frn Andr Gide", Stockholms-Tidningen (Sweden), December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.3]

Newspaper Clipping: "Kvick Pauling 'hederssvensk' p Nobelgalan", Stockholms-Tidningen (Sweden), December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.14]

Newspaper Clipping: "Kvick Pauling 'hederssvensk' p Nobelgalan", Stockholms-Tidningen (Sweden), December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.6]

Newspaper Clipping: "Kvick Pauling 'hederssvensk' pa Nobelgalan", Stockholms-tidningen, December 11, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.90]

Newspaper Clipping: "Nobel Science Prize Winners", St. Louis (Missouri) Everyday Magazine, December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.18]

Newspaper Clipping: "Obesvrad Pristagare Charmerade Nobelfest", Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.16]

Newspaper Clipping: "Obesvrad pristagare charmarade Nobelfest" Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.22]

Newspaper Clipping: "Obesvrad pristagare charmerade Nobelfest", Dagen Nyheter (Sweden), December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.5]

Newspaper Clipping: "Pauling Gladaste Prisstagaren", Morgon-Tidningen, December 11, 1954 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.104-105]

Newspaper Clipping: "Stockholms Nobelfest Fem Priser Overrakt", Aftenposten (Oslo), December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.11]

Newspaper Clipping: "Tro Inte de Aldre Pristagarrad Till Unga Forskare", Dagens Nyheter, December 11, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.102]

Newspaper Clipping: "Valkyria I Svart Bland Nobeldamer I TV-Lius", Stockholms-Tidningen, December 11, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.91]

Newspaper Clipping: "Valkyria I Svart Bland Nobeldamer I Tv-Ljus", Stockholms-Tidningen (Sweden), December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.12]

Newspaper Clipping: Ambassador mottog litterart 'varldsmasterskapstecken", Svenska Dagbladet, December 11, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.88]

Newspaper Clipping: Ingen Nobels Tanke Har Forlorat Sitt Varde", Publication Unknown [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.100]

Newspaper Clipping: No Title, Honolulu (Hawaii) Saturday Star-Bulletin, December 11, 1954. [LP Newspaper Clippings 1954n2.9]

Newspaper Clipping: Nobeljaktigt I het TV-skrubb 'Ahh' pa gatan for prinsessa", Svenska Dagbladet, December 11, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.89]

Nobel lecture at 4 p. m. in the Aula of the Institute of Technology, room 187.

Pauling, L. Modern Structural Chemistry. Les Prix Nobel en 1954. Kungl. Boktrycheriet P.A. Norstedt & Sner: Stockholm, 1955.

Program: "Stockholms Slott", December 11, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.86]

Seating arrangement and menu from King's banquet [LP Awards Box1954h2.9]

Several drafts of lecture prior to publication.

Typescript: "Response by Linus Pauling to the Toast to the Laureates of the Year, The Nobel Banquet 1954" [LP Awards, Box 1954h2.9]

Response by Linus Pauling to the Toast to the Laureates of the Year

The Nobel Banquet 1954

Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a great honor to be chosen as the recipient of a Nobel Prize; not only a great honor, but a great pleasure, and, speaking not only for myself but also for my wife and our children, I thank all of you.

I have found that it is always a great pleasure to come to Sweden. I feel at home in Sweden: even though there may be a snow-covered landscape about us, instead of the green (or sometimes brown) hills of southern California, nevertheless I feel, emanating from the Swedish people, the radiations of sympathy, of homologous character, so strongly as almost to cause me to consider myself to be a Swede.

I remember my first close connection with Sweden. During the period 1923 to 1925 I became well acquainted with Dr. Albert Björkeson, who, as a young physicist, spent two years carrying on research in the Norman Bridge Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology. I collaborated with him on a piece of scientific work, and through him I learned something about your wonderful country.

Then in 1947 my wife and I were privileged to visit here, in the beautiful city of Stockholm, and even to participate in a banquet held for the International Congress of Cytology, in this room. Then last year, in 1953, we were happy to be able to come again to Sweden – and I had the pleasure and honor of being allowed to speak in the Concert House, on a scientific subject in which I am deeply interested – the stochastic method (that is, how to make good guesses – the word is from the Greek _________, apt to divine the truth by conjecture) and the structure of proteins. Ever since these earlier visits, my wife and I have hoped that we could see the Concert House and this beautiful Town Hall, a wonderful example of the best in modern architecture, again, and we thank you for the privilege of being here on this occasion.

I hope that it will not be considered that I am any less an American citizen if I say that from now on I shall consider myself to be an honorary Swede.

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