I HAVE FORMULATED A SORT OF INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MEC

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"I HAVE FORMULATED . . . A SORT OF INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICAL THEORY" (SCIENTISTS.) LINUS PAULING. Typed Letter Signed, to Jeremy Bernstein, explaining his theory of nuclear structure as an interpretation of quantum mechanics, stating how his theory is explanatory, predictive, and continuous with existing theory, justifying the adventure of a chemist in the realm of physics, and hoping he would provide an opinion about Pauling's recent work in physics. 3 pages, 4to, written on three sheets, first page on "Linus Pauling Institute" stationery; horizontal folds. Palo Alto, 3 May 1982

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". . . [B]eginning in about 1925, I thought about the problem of the structure of nuclei . . . . When . . . experimental information about the properties of nuclei became available and theoretical physicists began applying quantum mechanical theory to explain the observations, I found that I had difficulty in forming a picture in my mind that was compatible with the observation and with the theory and that also gave me satisfaction . . . .

"The picture that I have formulated is . . . a sort of interpretation of quantum mechanical theory. . . .

". . . Even now, nearly 60 years after quantum mechanics was discovered, the quantum mechanical calculations about molecules are much inferior to the application of classical structure theory amplified by some new ideas in the 1930s, in making predictions about chemical substances. . . ."