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• Vitamin C and the Common Cold: The Roots of Controversy

  

  Detail from “The Perils of Pauling”, National Observer, November 27, 1971.[Part 1 of 4]Growing up in the United States, many children today are told to drink... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Last Year as a Grad Student

  

  Ava Helen and Linus Pauling, 1924.[Part 3 of 3]Pauling’s final year of graduate school at the California Institute of Technology, 1924-1925, was quite busy. Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling Becomes a Researcher

  

  Roscoe Dickinson, 1923.[Part 2 of 3 in a series investigating Linus Pauling’s life as a graduate student]As a graduate student at the California Institute of... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling in Graduate School

  

  Pauling in Pasadena, 1922.[Part 1 of 3]“My ambition to become a factor in the advancement of human knowledge can be realized only if I prepare myself properly... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The New York Daily News Lawsuit: A Tangled Web

  

  [Part 2 of 2]In the wake of the May 1963 failure of Linus Pauling’s first libel trial versus the New York Daily News, Pauling received a letter from his... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Strange Saga of the New York Daily News Lawsuit

  

  New York Daily News opinion piece of September 2, 1961.[Part 1 of 2]As readers of this blog know, Linus Pauling was a prominent public figure who became... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The World Responds to the Rosenberg Trial

  

  Los Angeles Examiner photo, ca. June 1953. Note the partially obscured placard at left referencing Pauling’s support for clemency. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on Trial

  

  [Part 2 of 3]Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s conspiracy trial, presided over by Judge Irving Kaufman, began on March 6, 1951.  Representing the United States was... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Rosenberg Trial: Setting the Stage

  

  Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, December 1950.[Ed. Note: September 28, 2015 will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg’s birth. Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• “A Disgraceful Act…”

  

  [Part 3 of 3]As Robert Oppenheimer’s loyalty hearing before the Atomic Energy Commission moved forward, the discussion surrounding Oppenheimer’s... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Oppenheimer Trial

  

  Pauling’s copy of the Oppenheimer hearing transcript.[Part 2 of 3]J. Robert Oppenheimer achieved prominence, first in the scientific community and later with th... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling and Oppenheimer: A Short and Intense Friendship

  

  Group photo of Caltech Physics faculty and graduate students, taken on the occasion of a visit to Pasadena by Albert Einstein, 1931. Robert Oppenheimer sits in... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Nobel Peace Laureates Appeal for Peace in Vietnam

  

  The signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty by President Kennedy in 1963 marked a high water point in Linus Pauling’s career as a social activist. Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Ava Helen, Linus, and the Push for Federal Union

  

  [Part 3 of 3]Soon after its publication in 1939, Clarence Streit’s thought-provoking book, Union Now, became a popular topic of discussion nationwide. Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Clarence Streit

  

  The idea of a unifying world government may seem difficult to imagine, yet political thinkers have considered the possibility at different moments throughout... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Union Now

  

  [Part 1 of 3]The onset of World War II drastically changed the course of Linus Pauling’s career. As was characteristic of much of 20th century warfare, the... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Ain’t Misbehavin’

  

  The Paulings, 1976.Creative nonfiction by Melinda Gormley and Melissae FelletBig Sur, 1976-1977Linus and Ava Helen Pauling are in the kitchen of their home on... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Peace Prize

  

  At Deer Flat Ranch, 1964. Arthur Herzog, photographer.Creative Nonfiction by Melinda Gormley and Melissae FelletBig Sur and Pasadena, October 10, 1963There was ... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Dinner and a Dance

  

  Creative Nonfiction by Melinda Gormley and Melissae FelletThe White House, April 29, 1962It had been pleasant weather in Washington DC all day. Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Petition

  

  Linus and Ava Helen Pauling working on “An Appeal by American Scientists to the Government and Peoples of the World”. 1957.Creative Nonfiction by Melinda Gormle... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2015 HISTORY, SCIENCE