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• Fifty Years of the Linus Pauling Medal

  

  [Ed Note: With the awarding of the ninth Linus Pauling Legacy Award to Dr. Jane Lubchenco scheduled for next Tuesday, we thought this an appropriate time to tak... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• A Book That Never Was: Pauling’s “Fighting for Peace and Freedom”

  

  Pauling’s proposed chapter outline of “Fighting for Peace and Freedom,” October 31, 1960.In 1960 Linus Pauling faced a severe test when he was called before... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• A Funny Story from Andy Warhol

  

  Linus Pauling, Jill Sackler, and Andy Warhol in New York, November 21, 1985. The Linus Pauling Medal for Humanitarianism was presented to Arthur Sackler that... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• A Lecture Interrupted and a Campus Torn Apart

  

  [Part 2 of 2]The Oregon State University Black Student Union’s (BSU) decision to interrupt a convocation featuring Linus Pauling and to stage a subsequent... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The 1969 Black Student Union Walkout

  

  African American students leaving the OSU campus through its west gate, February 25, 1969.[Ed Note: We recently received a collection of photographs... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Justin McBrien, Resident Scholar

  

  Justin McBrienJustin McBrien, a Ph.D. candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, is the most recent individual to complete... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Jane Lubchenco is the 2016 Linus Pauling Legacy Award Recipient

  

  Dr. Jane LubchencoWe are very pleased to announce that Dr. Jane Lubchenco will receive the 2016 Linus Pauling Legacy Award in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday,... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Eight Years of the Pauling Blog

  

  This week, we celebrate the eighth anniversary of the founding of the Pauling Blog.  We began this project in March 2008 to announce the release of a postage... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling 115

  

  This is where we’ll be today.This coming Sunday will mark the 115th anniversary of Linus Pauling’s birth on February 28, 1901. Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Nobel Nominators: Peace

  

  The Pauling family assembled prior to Linus Pauling’s Nobel Peace lecture, Oslo, Norway, December 10, 1963.[Part 6 of 6]As we conclude our series on Pauling’s... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Nobel Nominators: Chemistry, 1949-1954; Medicine,1953

  

  Linus Pauling shaking hands with King Gustav at the 1954 Nobel Prize Ceremony. Stockholm, Sweden. Photo Credit: Text Bilder[Part 5 of 6]Today’s post focuses o... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Nobel Nominators: Chemistry, 1940-1948

  

  The Nobel Ceremony, Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 1954. Pauling stands at right. Image by Hans Malmberg.[Part 4 of 6]Linus Pauling was nominated at least... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Now Accepting Applications for 2016 Resident Scholars

  

  The Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC) is pleased to announce that applications are once again being... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Nobel Peace Prize

  

  New York Times, October 11, 1963.[Part 3 of 6]On October 10, 1963, Linus Pauling received word that he was to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Nobel Chemistry Prize

  

  Image is captioned: “Prof. Linus Pauling stole the show at the Nobel banquet with his cheerful laugh.” Credit: MT söndag, 1954. Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Nobel Prizes: History and Mechanics

  

  Alfred Nobel.[Ed Note: Immersed as we are in the sheer volume and diversity of the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, it is sometimes easy for us as a staff... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2016 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Remembering Henry Taube

  

  Four Nobel Prize-winning chemists with a connection to Stanford University. From left, Arthur Kornberg, Paul Flory, Henry Taube, and Linus Pauling. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Vitamin C and Cancer: Rays of Hope

  

  [Part 4 of 4]Ridiculed by the medical profession for two decades, the tide began to shift for vitamin C and cancer starting in 1992. Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Vitamin C and Cancer: Raising the Stakes

  

  Ewan Cameron, Ava Helen and Linus Pauling. Glasgow, Scotland, October 1976.[Part 3 of 4]By 1970, the year that Linus Pauling published Vitamin C and the Common... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Vitamin C and the Common Cold: Pauling Vs. the Physicians

  

  Diary entry by Linus Pauling, 1980. The text reads: “L[inus] P[auling] / Found enzymes enthralling / He was filled with glee / By Vitamin C”Part 2 of 4As a... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE