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• Pauling’s OAC: A Maturing Relationship with Chemistry

  

  Linus Pauling, 1920.[A look back at Linus Pauling’s undergraduate experience from 100 years ago; part 2 of 3.]By the fall of 1920, Linus Pauling was connected t... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s OAC, 1920-21: A True Junior Year

  

  “Peany” Pauling – “a prodigy, yet in his teens.”[A look back at Linus Pauling’s undergraduate experience at Oregon Agricultural College one-hundred years ago.... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The “Spanish Flu” at OAC, 1918-1919

  

  Linus Pauling, 1918.[Ed Note: School is underway here at Oregon State University, and as has become tradition for us, next week we will begin an investigation o... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Kennedy Assassination

  

  One in a series of Kennedy motorcade photos sent to Pauling by Raymond Marcus.As was detailed in our previous series of posts, Linus Pauling’s relationship... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling, Kennedy and Khrushchev: Public Interactions

  

  Pauling speaking to students at San Jose City College, April 12, 1962[Part 4 of 4]Linus Pauling’s public relationship with John F. Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling, Kennedy and Khrushchev: Other Letters

  

  Pauling’s handwritten drafts of letters to John F. Kennedy and U Thant during the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 27, 1962[Part 3 of 4]Though his private... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Letters to Premier Khrushchev

  

  Nikita Khruschev. [Credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild][Documenting Linus Pauling’s communications with John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khruschev. This is post 2 of 4. Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Letters to President Kennedy

  

  Excerpt from Pauling’s “night letter” to John F. Kennedy, March 1962[With this post, we begin an examination of Linus Pauling’s relationship with President... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Science for Life and Career

  

  Linus Pauling, 1950[Wrapping up our series on Linus Pauling’s rhetoric as it related to the development of post-war science. This is part 5 of 5.]“Academic... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Finding Resources for Basic Science and Medical Research

  

  Linus Pauling, 1949[Exploring Linus Pauling’s popular writings on the shape of post-war science, part 4 of 5.]“Our job ahead.” Chemical and Engineering News,... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Unsolved Problems and Hope for the Future

  

  Lecturing on structural chemistry at the Richards Medal ceremony. Pauling received this award from the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society in... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Molecular Architects, Atomic Blueprints and Medical Progress

  

  The Gibbs Award dinner, June 1946[An exploration of Linus Pauling’s popular rhetoric on the potential for science following World War II. This is part 2 of... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• A Post-War Vision for Science

  

  Linus Pauling, 1946[Ed Note: Today and in the four posts that will follow, we will be examining a series of popular articles and lectures that Linus Pauling... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Soviet Resonance Controversy: Outside Views

  

  [Part 7 of 7]Even though the resonance controversy was largely one contested between Soviet scientists and Linus Pauling, many outside members of the... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Soviet Resonance Controversy: Dying Embers

  

  “Glory and Pride of Russian Science,” Pravda, November 22, 1961. Note Pauling’s annotation at far right.[Part 6 of 7]After the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953,... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Soviet Resonance Controversy: Pauling Fights Back

  

  [Part 5 of 7]Beginning in the late 1940s, Linus Pauling’s theory of resonance came under attack in the Soviet Union, first by scientists and then by the Soviet... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Soviet Resonance Controversy: Escalating the Attack on “Bourgeois Science”

  

  O.A. Reutov[Part 4 of 7]In late 1940s and early 1950s, the culture of Soviet science was dominated by Lysenkoist thinking, with little room permitted for other... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Soviet Resonance Controversy: Beginnings

  

  Trofim Lysenko[Part 3 of 7]Linus Pauling’s resonance theory, while initially a bit difficult to grasp, gradually became an essential tool for predicting and... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling Supports His Resonance Theory

  

  Portrait of Linus Pauling, 1930s[Exploring the theory of resonance and the Soviet resonance controversy. Part 2 of 7.]Linus Pauling was able to develop his... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• What is Resonance Theory?

  

  Linus Pauling, 1931.[Ed Note: In 2009, we dipped our toes into an unusual Pauling controversy involving the theory of resonance and Soviet scientific dogma. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE