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• General Chemistry: Reactions to the First Edition

  

  [An examination of General Chemistry, published by Linus Pauling seventy years ago. This is part 3 of 7.]The first edition of Linus Pauling’s General Chemistry... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• An Auspicious Friendship

  

  [An examination of General Chemistry, published by Linus Pauling seventy years ago. This is part 2 of 7.]William Hazen “Bill” Freeman established the... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• General Chemistry

  

  [Ed Note: Today we begin a lengthy examination of Linus Pauling’s milestone textbook, General Chemistry, which was published seventy years ago. This is part 1 o... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Intravenous Vitamin C: The Current Science

  

  Jeanne Drisko with Murray Susser. Both Drisko and Susser are past presidents of the American College for Advancement in Medicine.[Part 2 of 2]At her public... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Intravenous Vitamin C: The Historical Progression

  

  Jeanne Drisko[Part 1 of 2]Jeanne Drisko, MD, Director of Integrative Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, was a featured speaker... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s OAC: Completing the Freshman Year

  

  President William Jasper Kerr speaks to members of the Students’ Army Training Corps, as assembled near the OAC bandstand, 1918. Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Rook Life

  

  Pauling outside his boarding house, first term of his freshman year at OAC.[Part 3 of 4 in our examination of the Oregon Agricultural College that Linus... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Study and Social Life at the Oregon Agricultural College

  

  OAC students in the Chemistry Lab, 1916. Note the student in military dress – during Linus Pauling’s undergraduate tenure, two years of ROTC were required of al... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s OAC

  

  OAC rooks running through a large O at Bell Field, 1914.[Ed Note: Today is the first day of Fall classes here at Oregon State University, and this month also... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Leaving La Jolla

  

  Ava Helen and Linus Pauling near the beach at La Jolla, 1969.[Pauling at UCSD, part 3 of 3]In early 1969, Linus Pauling announced that he had accepted an... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling at UCSD: Season of Tumult

  

  [Part 2 of 3 in a series exploring Linus Pauling’s years on faculty at the University of California, San Diego.]As his program on orthomolecular psychiatry bega... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling at UC-San Diego

  

  [Part 1 of 3]We have written previously about Linus Pauling’s affiliation with the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI), and also of the... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• A Visit to Abergwenlais Mill

  

  [Ed Note: We recently learned about a film, The Golden Molecule, that was produced in 2002 and includes unique footage of Peter Pauling at his home in Wales. Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Case of the Black Dog of San Pasqual

  

  Linda Pauling and her father enjoying a calmer moment with a dog in 1934.[In honor of the dog days of summer, we present here a fictional “L.A. noir” retelling... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Stylish to the End

  

  [An examination of Linus Pauling’s sense of style during the 1980s and 1990s. Part 4 of 4.]At Deer Flat Ranch with Ava Helen near the end of her life, 1981. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Scientist, Sartorialist

  

  [Part 3 of 4 examining Linus Pauling’s sense of style. Today’s post covers the 1960s and 1970s.]Posing with a model near the end of his time at Caltech,... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling Couture

  

  [Part of 2 of 4 in a series exploring Linus Pauling’s sense of style. Today’s post features photographs taken during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.]Baby Peter... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Clothes Make the Man

  

  [Ed Note: The Pauling Blog becomes a photo blog for the next four weeks as we dig into the 5,500+ images held in the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers. Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• David Pressman

  

  , 1937[Part 6 of 6 in our series exploring Linus Pauling’s work on the serological properties of simple substances, and the colleagues who assisted him in this... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Carol Ikeda and Miyoshi Ikawa

  

  Linus Pauling, 1942[Ed Note: Parts 5 and 6 of our series detailing Linus Pauling’s work on the serological properties of simple substances both focus on the... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE