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• Emile Zuckerkandl, 1922-2013

  

  Pauling and Zuckerkandl in Japan, 1955.We close out our posting schedule for the year on a melancholy note with this remembrance of the life of Emile... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Coming Home, Prize in Hand

  

  Torchlight procession in Oslo, December 1963.After the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies had passed, Linus and Ava Helen Pauling remained in Scandinavia into the... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Linus Pauling Receives the Nobel Peace Prize

  

  The Pauling family anticipating Linus Pauling’s Nobel lecture, December 11, 1963. (Photo credit: Aftenposten)On December 10th, 1963, Linus Pauling accepted the... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Oslo Bound

  

  Celebrating with friends, December 1963.While letters congratulating Linus Pauling for winning the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize continued to pour into his office earl... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Caltech, Cambridge and Coiled-Coils

  

  Coiled-coil illustration from Pauling and Corey’s Nature publication of January 10, 1953.Within the overarching saga of the race for DNA between Linus... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Shannon Cram, Resident Scholar

  

  Shannon CramShannon Cram, a Ph. D. candidate in UC Berkeley’s Department of Geography, is the most recent individual to have completed a term as Resident Schola... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Road to Oslo: Accolades from Allies

  

  Handmade card honoring the Paulings, 1963.[Examining Pauling's activities in November 1963, Part 2 of 2]Away from the stress of managing his public image,... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Road to Oslo: the Media Passes Judgement

  

  Gaceta Ilustrada, (Madrid) November 2, 1963.[Examining Pauling's activities in November 1963 as he prepared to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Talking About the Limited Test Ban Treaty

  

  Bust of Pauling with a lei of peace cranes. Image courtesy of Mina Carson.On October 10th, 1963, the Limited Test Ban Treaty came into effect, having been agree... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• A Trip to North Salem High School

  

  Recently the blog took a field trip a few miles up I-5 to North Salem High School, where Ava Helen Pauling was inducted into the school’s hall of fame. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Congratulations to Martin Karplus

  

  We were delighted to learn last week that Martin Karplus will be one of three individuals to share the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Peace Prize

  

  On October 10, 1963, Linus Pauling received notice that he was to be history’s first recipient of two unshared Nobel Prizes.Like many other Nobel Prize... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Wrinch’s Legacy

  

  Dorothy Wrinch. Image courtesy of the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.[Part 4 of 4]After her marriage to Otto C. Glaser in late August 1941, Dorothy... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling v. Wrinch

  

  “Report on the work of Dr. Dorothy Wrinch.” Written by Linus Pauling and submitted to the Rockefeller Institute. March 31, 1938. Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Wrinch’s Cyclols

  

  Dorothy Wrinch holding a model of a cylcol, 1938. (Associated Press photograph)[Part 2 of 4]The late 1920s were, overall, a good time for Dorothy Wrinch. Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Dorothy Wrinch: The Early Years

  

  Dorothy Wrinch, 1940. (Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory Archives photo)[Part 1 of 4]Dorothy Maud Wrinch was a mathematician and biochemical theorist who, like man... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling and Proteins: The Final Five Publications

  

  Linus Pauling showing a molecular model to a young boy. 1950s.[Part 3 of 3]On March 31, 1951, Linus Pauling and numerous associates published seven revolutionar... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling and Proteins: Helices in the Air

  

  Mounted models of the gamma helix and alpha helix, as housed in the Special Collections Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries. Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling and Proteins: The Beginnings of a Revolution

  

  Linus Pauling and Robert Corey examining models of protein structure molecules, ca. 1951.[Part 1 of 3]An article with the somewhat cumbersome title “The... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The End of Artificial Antibodies

  

  Illustration of bivalent antibodies attaching to complementary antigen molecules. Image extracted from a glass plate display, “Pictures of Antibodies,”... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE