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• We Wrote a Book!

  

  Long-time readers will have noticed that it’s been awfully quiet around here in recent months. There are many reasons for this, but one of the biggest is a... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2022 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Linus Pauling Day, 2022

  

  Happy Linus Pauling Day! In commemoration of Pauling’s birth 121 years ago, Dr. John Westerdahl of the Health Longevity podcast interviewed Dr. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2022 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• A Resonating-Valence-Bond Theory of Metals and Intermetallic Compounds, 1949

  

  Linus Pauling, 1949As we have written elsewhere, Linus Pauling developed and championed the theory of resonance early on in his career. Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Nature of the Intermolecular Forces Operative in Biological Processes, 1940

  

  Linus Pauling, Max Delbrück and Max Perutz at the American Chemical Society centennial meeting, New York. April 6, 1976.In 1940 Linus Pauling, along with... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Nature of Interatomic Forces in Metals, 1938

  

  Linus Pauling, ca. 1930s“In recent years I have formed, on the basis of mainly empirical arguments, a conception of the nature of the interatomic forces in... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Theoretical Prediction of the Physical Properties of Many-Electron Atoms...

  

  Linus and Ava Helen Pauling in Copenhagen, May 1927[Ed Note: Today and in the three posts that will follow, we will be taking a close look at four important... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Ava Helen Miller in Corvallis, 1921-1923

  

  Ava Helen Miller, ca. 1922. Note annotation by Linus Pauling: “Ava Helen about when I met her.”[Part 2 of 2]Ava Helen Miller entered Oregon Agriculture... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Ava Helen’s OAC

  

  Ava Helen Miller, fall 1921[Part 1 of 2]Ava Helen Miller entered Oregon Agricultural College (OAC), now known as Oregon State University, in the fall of 1921. Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s OAC: Super Senior Year

  

  [Ed Note: School starts today here at Oregon State University! As we have for the previous four years, we take this opportunity to look back at Linus Pauling’s... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Cancer and Vitamin C: Crossroads of New Research

  

  [Part 9 of 9]In 2018, a third edition of Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling’s book, Cancer and Vitamin C, was published. Released nearly a quarter century after... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Cancer and Vitamin C: A Major Conference

  

  Pauling in 1989. Photo by Paolo M. Sutter.[Part 8 of 9]When the first edition of their book, Cancer and Vitamin C, was published in 1979, popular support for th... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Cancer and Vitamin C: The Mayo Clinic Trial

  

  Linus Pauling, 1979[Part 7 of 9]In their 1979 book, Cancer and Vitamin C, Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling sought to explore the potential for vitamin C to treat... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Cancer and Vitamin C: Misnomers and More

  

  Pauling at the chalkboard, 1979.[Part 6 of 9]Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling’s 1979 book, Cancer and Vitamin C, was rooted in the most sound scientific... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Cancer and Vitamin C: A Review of the Book

  

  The Camerons and the Paulings in Scotland, 1974[Part 5 of 9]Cancer and Vitamin C, by Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling, was first published in 1979. A second... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Optimal Health and the Synthesis of Vitamin C

  

  Diary entry by Linus Pauling, 1980. The text reads: “L[inus] P[auling] / Found enzymes enthralling / He was filled with glee / By Vitamin C”[Reading Cameron... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Why Vitamin C? The Scurvy Connection

  

  James Lind[Reading Cancer and Vitamin C, part 3 of 9]In their 1979 book, Cancer and Vitamin C, Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling made clear that vitamin C was... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Why Vitamin C? Cancer Fighting Properties

  

  Ewan Cameron, Ava Helen and Linus Pauling. Glasgow, Scotland, October 1976.[An analysis of Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling’s book, Cancer and Vitamin C. This is... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Reading “Cancer and Vitamin C”

  

  [An exploration of Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling’s influential – and controversial – 1979 book. This introductory post is part 1 of 9. Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Vitamin C for COVID Pneumonia and More

  

  [Part 2 of 2]The second half of the Linus Pauling Institute’s annual Pauling Day event was devoted to a question-and-answer session with the day’s panel... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Vitamin C and Health: New Frontiers

  

  [Part 1 of 2]On February 27, 2021, the Linus Pauling Institute (LPI) at Oregon State University hosted its annual Linus Pauling Day celebration, using the... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE