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• Pauling and Pritikin Duke It Out Over Vitamin C

  

  Letter to Pauling from Steve Hewitt, August 1979.Dear Dr. Pauling. Several weeks ago, the Oregonian published an interview with Nathan Pritikin. In it, Mr. Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• A Theory of the Color of Dyes

  

  Image credit: Kanwal Jahan.Colors convey ideas and emotions in such fundamental ways that being able to capture and use them has been an important component of... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Mary Mitchell, Resident Scholar

  

  Mary MitchellMary Mitchell, a doctoral candidate in the history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania, recently completed her term as... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Discovery of Human Plastin at the Pauling Institute

  

  [Guest post written by John Leavitt, Ph.D., Nerac, Inc., Tolland, CT.]In 1985 my lab at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine (LPISM) in Palo Alto... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Public Response to The Nature of the Chemical Bond

  

  Pauling lecturing on valence and molecular structure, 1957.[Celebrating the 75th anniversary of The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Part 6 of 6. Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Promoting and Reacting to The Nature of the Chemical Bond

  

  [Celebrating the 75th anniversary of The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Part 5 of 6.]Once all of the hindrances to getting The Nature of the Chemical Bond... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Nature of the Chemical Bond Goes to Press

  

  [Celebrating the 75th anniversary of The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Part 4 of 6.]Once Linus Pauling began to send in the manuscript chapters of The Nature of... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Returning to Pasadena and Finishing the Manuscript

  

  Segment of Pauling’s draft manuscript for The Nature of the Chemical Bond, ca. 1937.[Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Nature of the Chemical Bond. Part... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The George Fischer Baker Lectureship and the Beginnings of the Manuscript

  

  [Celebrating the 75th anniversary of The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Part 2 of 6.]While Linus Pauling attempted throughout the 1930s to sit down and compose a... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Story of “The Nature of the Chemical Bond”: Coordinating Research & Funding

  

  [Ed. Note: This year marks the 75th anniversary of Linus Pauling's publication of his landmark text, The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Research Completed at LPISM in 1988 – Reproduced and Extended in 2014

  

  The author in his laboratory at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. Originally published in Science Digest, June 1986.[Guest post written by... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling the Swimming Cheat?

  

  The Men’s Gymnasium pool at Oregon Agricultural College, ca. 1920s. This is where Linus Pauling would have taken his required swim test. Or did he…?An odd nugge... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Zia Mian Lecture Now Available Online

  

  The fully transcribed video of Dr. Zia Mian’s lecture, “Out of the Nuclear Shadow: Scientists and the Struggle Against the Bomb,” is now available on the websit... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Roger J. Williams and the Continuing Quest for Good Health

  

  [Part 2 of 2]Though ostensibly retired in 1971, the nutrition scientist Roger J. Williams continued to pursue numerous research and public advocacy interests... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Roger J. Williams: Nutrition Scientist

  

  Roger J. Williams and Linus Pauling, 1972.[Part 1 of 2]“For about 15 years I have been working in the field of nutrition and I’ve become acquainted with many... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Think Independently: Pauling’s Years at OAC

  

  Linus Pauling on OAC graduation day, June 1922.[Ed Note: Last Saturday, Oregon State University graduated its largest class ever. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling and Perutz: The Later Years

  

  [Concluding our series on Max Perutz, in commemoration of the Perutz centenary.]In 1957, Max Perutz and Linus Pauling wrote to each other again on a topic that... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling and Perutz in the Golden Age of Protein Research

  

  Max Perutz, 1987. Image Credit: Graham Wood.[Part 3 of our series celebrating the Perutz centenary.]In 1939 Max Perutz’s girlfriend gave him a book token for... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Perutz’s Hemoglobin Breakthroughs and Later Work

  

  Perutz with his hemoglobin molecule, 1959. Image credit: Life Sciences Foundation.[Part II of our survey of the life of Max Perutz, this time focusing on the... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Max Perutz (1914-2002)

  

  Max Perutz. Credit: Theresianische Akademie Wien.[Ed Note: We mark the centenary of Max Perutz' birth today with the first in a series of posts on his life and... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE