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• Normal Expression of Human Beta-Actin (Cloned at LPISM) Acts as a Tumor...

  

  [Guest post written by John Leavitt, Ph.D., retired Senior Scientist at LPISM in Palo Alto CA from 1981 to 1988; living in Woodstock CT. Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• L-Plastin is One of 70 Signature Genes Used to Predict Prognosis of Breast Cance...

  

  [Guest post written by John Leavitt, Ph.D., retired Senior Scientist at LPISM in Palo Alto CA from 1981 to 1988; living in Woodstock, CT. Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Ahmed Zewail, 1946-2016

  

  Earlier this month, on Tuesday, August 2, Ahmed H. Zewail, a world renowned Nobel laureate chemist and Caltech’s Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Physics,... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling in Memorium

  

  Linus Pauling Jr. speaking at his father’s memorial service, August 29, 1994.[Part 4 of 4]On August 29th, 1994, a memorial service planned by Pauling’s... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The End of Pauling’s Life

  

  Linus Pauling giving an interview at Deer Flat Ranch, September 1993.[Part 3 of 4]After a sigmoidoscopy in 1993 revealed that Linus Pauling’s rectal tumor was... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2016 HISTORY

• Pauling’s Cancer

  

  Medical Tribune, September 10, 1992.[An examination of the final years of Linus Pauling’s life. Part 2 of 4.]In February 1992, Linus Pauling announced publicly... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Final Years

  

  Pauling posing at lower campus, Oregon Agricultural College, ca. 1917.[An examination of the end of Linus Pauling’s life, part 1 of 4]In 1917, at sixteen years... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Another View of the Pauling Models

  

  This past spring, Thomas Brennan, a photographer and the chair of Art and Art History at the University of Vermont, paid us a visit to capture his own set of... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• A View of Pauling’s Models

  

  In 2010, Oren Eckhaus, a photographer based in New York City, visited our facility to photograph several of the molecular models that remain extant in the Ava... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Peter Pauling: Epilogue

  

  Peter Pauling with his dad, 1931.[Part 9 of 9]Before he passed away in 2003, Peter Pauling saw his daughter Sarah marry, and also witnessed the births of two... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Peter Pauling: Exploring the Structure of Psychotropic Drugs, Searching for...

  

  The Pauling family at Deer Flat Ranch, 1973. Peter stands at left.[The life of Peter Pauling, part 8 of 9]It was the 1970s, and Peter Pauling was studying the... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Peter Pauling: A New Life in London, 1956-1969

  

  Peter Pauling, speaking at his father’s sixtieth birthday party, Los Angeles, 1961.[The life of Peter Pauling, part 7 of 9]Journeying on their honeymoon... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Peter Pauling: Cambridge Struggles, 1954-1956

  

  Peter and Julia Pauling, 1956.[The life of Peter Pauling, Part 6 of 9]The year 1954 was a tumultuous one for Peter Pauling. For one, Jim Watson had left for... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Peter Pauling at Cambridge, 1953-1954

  

  Peter Pauling, 1954.[The life of Peter Pauling, part 5 of 9]In the first months of 1953, with his office mates scrambling to determine the molecular structure o... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Peter Pauling and the Discovery of the Double Helix, 1952-1953

  

  Peter Pauling, 1954.[The life of Peter Pauling: Part 4 of 9]With Winter break coming fast and Linus Pauling having apparently solved the structure of DNA, Jim... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Peter Pauling: The Race That Wasn’t, 1952

  

  Peter Pauling with his parents, ca. 1950s.“This tub moves steadily but slowly along.” So wrote Peter Pauling in a letter to his mother, Ava Helen Pauling, ridin... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Peter Pauling: Leaving Home, 1945-1952

  

  The Pauling family in 1946. From left: Peter, Ava Helen, Linus, Crellin, Linda and Linus Jr.[The life story of Peter Pauling, part 2 of 9]In April 1945, while... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Peter Pauling: The Early Years, 1931-1945

  

  Linus Pauling with his second-born son, Peter. 1931.[Ed Note: Today we begin an in-depth examination of the life of Peter Pauling, the second child born to Ava... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Scenes from the 2016 Pauling Legacy Award Event

  

  A full house gathered at the Oregon Historical Society Museum last week to hear Dr. Jane Lubchenco deliver her 2016 Linus Pauling Legacy Award address,... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Pauling Medal Awardees

  

  Lucile Jenkins (Pauling’s sister), Linus Pauling and Ava Helen Pauling at the Pauling Medal ceremony, 1967.[Part 2 of 2]Ten years into the history of the Linus... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE