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• Important New Hires and Battles with the National Cancer Institute

  

  Art Robinson and Rick Hicks with LPISM visitors, 1977.[A history of the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, Part 2 of 8]By the end of 1975, the... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• The Founding of the Institute of Orthomolecular Medicine

  

  The Institute of Orthomolecular Medicine, 2700 Sand Hill Rd. Menlo Park, CA.[Ed Note: 2013 marks the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Linus Pauling... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Wooden Anniversary

  

  It’s a bit hard for us to believe, but this week marks the fifth birthday of the Pauling Blog. The blog was started in March 2008 with a couple of different... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Linus Pauling and the Structure of Proteins: A Documentary History

  

  Today is Linus Pauling’s birthday – he would have been 112 years old. Every year on February 28th we try to do something special and this time around we’re... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Atomic Desalination

  

  In June 1947, Linus Pauling gave a speech in which he spoke about potential non-military uses for atomic power. One potential use that he mentioned in passing... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Clarissa Lee, Resident Scholar

  

  Clarissa Lee, January 2013. Clarissa Lee is the most recent alum of the Oregon State University LibrariesResident Scholar Program, having completed her stay in... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• A Tough Conclusion to the National Review Suit

  

  [Part 2 of 2]Upon learning about Linus Pauling’s lawsuit, the National Review responded by deliberately provoking him, publishing an article in September 1962... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The National Review Lawsuit

  

  [Part 1 of 2]January 2013 marks the fifty year anniversary of the beginning of Linus Pauling’s libel lawsuit against National Review, an ideologically... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Two More from Pauling and Rath

  

  Linus Pauling, 1991.In the early 1990s, Linus Pauling and Matthias Rath drafted two patent documents not related to their lipoprotein(a) research – documents... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Lipoprotein(a) Patents

  

  Promotional literature for the Linus Pauling Heart Foundation, ca. 1992.[Part 2 of 2]With the results of their Lipoprotein(a) [LP(a)] experiments in hand,... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Experimenting with Lipoprotein(a)

  

  [Part 1 of 2]In the late 1980s into early 1990, Linus Pauling and a colleague, Matthias Rath, worked intensively on the health benefits of Vitamin C and... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Now Accepting Proposals for 2013 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 02 January 2013 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Resolving Superconductivity

  

  Figure 1 from Pauling’s superconductivity patent.[Part 3 of 3]As they continued to explore possibilities for creating improved superconductors, one challenge... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Superconductivity Patent

  

  Linus Pauling, 1988. [Part 2 of 3] Until the late 1980s, the generally accepted theory of electric superconductivity of metals was based on an understanding of... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Raising the Temperature: Pauling and Superconductivity

  

  Zelek Herman, 1991. [Part 1 of 3] “I believe that a discovery that I have made may make room-temperature superconductivity a reality. Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2012 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Mary Jo Nye on Pauling’s Models

  

  In the Fall of 2009 and Spring of 2010, Jane Nisselson, founder of the film and design studio Virtual Beauty, served at Resident Scholar in the OSU Libraries. Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2012 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Dr. Pnina Abir-Am, Resident Scholar

  

  Pnina Abir-Am Dr. Pnina Abir-Am, historian of science at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center, is the first individual to complete a term as... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2012 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Stanford Ovshinsky, 1922-2012

  

  Stanford and Iris Ovshinsky. Image from a Christmas card sent to Linus Pauling, 1990. Stanford R. Ovshinsky, a self-taught scientist and the inventor of the... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2012 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Barry Commoner, 1917-2012

  

  Barry Commoner, ca. 1960s. On September 30, 2012, Barry Commoner, an important environmentalist and key collaborator with Linus Pauling on the famous United... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• A New and Improved Cavity Charge Projectile

  

  Notes on explosives, October 2, 1942. “Major Ross, patent attorney for the Navy…said that perhaps I didn’t know that I was co-inventor in this invention – I do... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2012 HISTORY, SCIENCE