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• Pauling’s Study of Schizophrenia: Pulling Back

  

  ASA leaflet with Pauling’s annotations, circa 1971[Part 9 of 9]Throughout his long advocacy of an orthomolecular approach to mental disease, Linus Pauling... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Study of Schizophrenia: Clashes with Jean Mayer

  

  Jean Mayer. Credit: Tufts University[Part 8 of 9]“I am afraid you and Jean Mayer will have to lock horns. Read the attached clipping. He is doing you a lot of... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Study of Schizophrenia: A Hearing Before the Connecticut State Senate

  

  Linus Pauling, 1977.[Part 7 of 10]As we have seen, a primary objective of Linus Pauling’s work on schizophrenia was to establish the therapy as legitimate and t... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Study of Schizophrenia: The Media

  

  [Part 6 of 10]“Even in the starchiest Establishment criticism, there lurk phrases or hints that just maybe Linus and his buddies have something – if only they... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Study of Schizophrenia: Support

  

  [Ed Note: The Pauling Blog becomes a teenager this week! On March 4, 2008 we introduced ourselves to the world with our first post. Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Study of Schizophrenia: Pushback

  

  [Wishing an early happy birthday to Linus Pauling, who would have turned 120 years old this coming Sunday. To celebrate, we continue our survey of his work on... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Study of Schizophrenia: A Program of Work

  

  [Part 3 of 10]“I feel, accordingly, that it is the duty of every psychiatrist to add megavitamin therapy, orthomolecular methods, to his armamentarium, and to... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Study of Schizophrenia: A New Model Vitamin

  

  Irwin Stone. (Image by Oscar Falconi)[Part 2 of 10]“I have decided, on the basis of the evidence presented by Irwin Stone, that there is very strong evidence... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Study of Schizophrenia: Origins from Hoffer and Osmond

  

  Abram Hoffer and Linus Pauling at the symposium, “Adjuvant Nutrition in Cancer Treatment,” Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 1992.[Part 1 of 10]“If there is evidence,... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Sickle Cell Research to the Present and the Future

  

  Three-dimensional rendering of sickle cell anemia blood cells. Credit: National Institutes of Health.By Dr. Marcus Calkins, Part 3 of 3Forty years after Linus... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Sickle Cell Research in the Wake of Pauling and Watson

  

  Harvey Itano, 1954. Image credit: Caltech Archives.By Dr. Marcus Calkins, Part 2 of 3The molecular defect in Sickle cell disease was demonstrated by Linus... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Slow March Toward a Cure for Sickle Cell Disease

  

  Pastel drawing of sickled hemoglobin cells by Roger Hayward, 1964By Dr. Marcus Calkins[Ed Note: This is the first of three posts examining the history of... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2021 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Seventh Paper on the Nature of the Chemical Bond

  

  [Part 7 of 7]“The Nature of the Chemical Bond. VII. The Calculation of Resonance Energy inConjugated Systems.” The Journal of Chemical Physics, October 1933The... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Sixth Paper on the Nature of the Chemical Bond

  

  Table of resonance energy calculations for condensed ring systems[Part 6 of 7]“The Nature of the Chemical Bond. VI. The Calculation from Thermochemical Data of... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Fifth Paper on the Nature of the Chemical Bond

  

  [What follows is Part 5 of 7 in this series. It is also the 800th blog post published by the Pauling Blog.]“The Nature of the Chemical Bond. V. Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Fourth Paper on the Nature of the Chemical Bond

  

  [Part 4 of 7]“The Nature of the Chemical Bond. IV. The Energy of Single Bonds and the Relative Electronegativity of Atoms.” Journal of the American Chemical... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Third Paper on the Nature of the Chemical Bond

  

  [Part 3 of 7]“The Nature of the Chemical Bond. III. The Transition from One Extreme Bond Type to Another.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, March 1932. Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Second Paper on the Nature of the Chemical Bond

  

  Linus Pauling, 1931.[Part 2 of 7]“The nature of the chemical bond. II. The one-electron bond and the three-electron bond.” Journal of the American Chemical... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s First Paper on the Nature of the Chemical Bond

  

  [Part 1 of 7]Over the span of just two short years beginning in 1931, Linus Pauling published seven decidedly influential papers on the nature of the chemical... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s OAC: A New Decade

  

  [Looking back on Linus Pauling’s junior year at Oregon Agricultural College. This is part 3 of 3.]The 1920-21 academic year at Oregon Agricultural College was,... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE