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• The Decline of Orthomolecular Psychiatry

  

  Abram Hoffer and Linus Pauling at the symposium, “Adjuvant Nutrition in Cancer Treatment,” Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 1992.We have written before on both the... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Humphry Osmond, the Original Psychedelic Psychiatrist

  

  Humphry Osmond (front row seated, far left), with the Paulings and others at a gathering in Tulsa, Oklahoma. June 1972.Dr. Humphry Fortescue Osmond, while... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Some Personal Thoughts on Vitamin C in the 1980s and Now

  

  [Guest post written by John Leavitt, Ph.D., Nerac, Inc., Tolland, CT.]The author in his laboratory at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine.... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Scenes from the 2014 Pauling Legacy Award Event

  

  On Monday, April 21st, Dr. Zia Mian became the eighth individual to receive the Linus Pauling Legacy Award, granted every other year to an individual who has... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Irwin Stone’s Impact on Pauling

  

  Linus Pauling and Irwin Stone, 1977.[Part 2 of 2]Four years after Irwin Stone first convinced Linus Pauling to start taking megadoses of vitamin C, Pauling... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Irwin Stone: An Influential Man

  

  Irwin Stone. (Image by Oscar Falconi)[Part 1 of 2]Dr. Irwin Stone was a biochemist and chemical engineer who maintained a particular interest in and enthusiasm... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Alejandro Zaffaroni, 1923-2014

  

  Alejandro Zaffaroni. (Life Sciences Foundation image)In a 1997 interview with Jill Wolfson and Tejinder Singh, Alejandro Zaffaroni shared what it was like for... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Rebecca Mertens, Resident Scholar

  

  Rebecca MertensRebecca Mertens of Bielefeld University, located in northwest Germany, is the latest visitor to complete a term as Resident Scholar in the... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• An Interview with Zia Mian

  

  Dr. Zia Mian, who will be traveling to Oregon in April to accept the 2014 Linus Pauling Legacy Award, was kind enough to give us a bit of his time not long ago... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Dr. Pauling’s Chiral Aliens

  

  [A guest post expanding on Pauling's idea of a science fiction novel. Post authored by the blog's East Coast Bureau Chief, Dr. John Leavitt, Nerac, Inc.,... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Dr. Pauling’s Prediction of a Mutation in Beta-Globin Which Causes Sickle Cell...

  

  [Guest post written by John Leavitt, Ph.D., Nerac, Inc., Tolland, CT.]Linus Pauling lecturing on sickle cell anemia, Kyoto, Japan. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Zia Mian is the 2014 Pauling Legacy Award Winner

  

  Happy Linus Pauling Day!  Today marks the 113th anniversary of Pauling’s birth and, as has become tradition here at the Pauling Blog, we celebrate with an... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Sci-Fi Author That Might Have Been…

  

  …and featuring a debut story by Linus Pauling?Along with detective stories, crossword puzzles and the occasional walk, reading science fiction was Linus... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pioneering the Field of Proteomics

  

  John Leavitt, 1982.[Guest post written by John Leavitt, Ph.D., Nerac, Inc., Tolland, CT.]In the fall of 1985, I went to a small meeting in Heidelberg, Germany,... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The 1980s at the Linus Pauling Institute – A Wonderful Place to Be

  

  John Leavitt[Ed Note: This is part one of a two part series of guest posts written by John Leavitt, Ph.D., Nerac, Inc., Tolland, CT. Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Die Chronologie Von Linus Pauling

  

  Pauling speaking in Mainz, Germany, July 1983.Since we’re in an announcing mood, it gives us great pleasure to pass along word of another new Pauling resource... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Two More Years in the Life

  

  We’re pleased to announce the addition of two more years to the ever-expanding Linus Pauling Day-by-Day project. Now in its fifteenth year of production and... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Continuing Voyages of the R/V Alpha Helix

  

  Schematic of the R/V Alpha Helix, 1966.[Part 2 of 2]Built in 1965, the R/V Alpha Helix, named after the protein structure discovered by Linus Pauling, had prove... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The R/V Alpha Helix

  

  , 1966.[Part 1 of 2]It was early 1966 when Linus Pauling received a letter informing him that a new research vessel had just been constructed in Washington... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Now Accepting Applications for 2014 Resident Scholars

  

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

  Posted on 03 January 2014 HISTORY, SCIENCE