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• Pauling’s Final Guggenheim Fellowship

  

  Pauling (with a broken foot) seated for a sculpture portrait session, 1966[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation; part 17 of 17]Linus Pauling’s relationship wit... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Disengagement from the Guggenheim Foundation

  

  The Paulings in India, 1955[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]In 1950, the Indian government invited Linus Pauling to spend six weeks visiting and... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Cox Committee Response and a Nasty Falling Out

  

  Linus Pauling and George Beadle, circa 1950s[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]At the end of 1952, Guggenheim Foundation Secretary Henry Allen Moe found... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Early Disputes: The Bush Report and The World Federation of Scientific Workers

  

  Vannevar Bush[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]Linus Pauling and Henry Allen Moe, Secretary of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, lived on... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Robert Corey’s Fellowship and the Roots of an Argument

  

  Robert Corey[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]In 1949, as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation tested out its new style of fellowships for... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• A New Type of Guggenheim Fellowship

  

  Letter from Henry Allen Moe to Linus Pauling, November 1951[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]Melvin Newman’s difficulties working under the fellowship... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• A Small Variation From Conventional Procedure: The Case of Melvin Newman

  

  Melvin Newman[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]As the Second World War receded into the past, scientists in the United States increasingly turned away... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Guggenheim Work During His Battle With Nephritis

  

  Pauling family portrait taken in 1941. Back of photograph is annotated, “1941. Daddy very ill.”[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]In 1941, Linus Pauling’s... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Fellowship of Walter Pitts

  

  Walter Pitts[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]Linus Pauling’s roles on two John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation committees – the Committee of Selectio... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Guggenheim Foundation During the Second World War

  

  [Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]The onset of World War II greatly reduced the quantity of applicants seeking fellowship support from the John Simon... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling's Input on Some Notable Guggenheim Applicants

  

  Linus Pauling, 1950s[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]During the years of Linus Pauling’s association with the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Reading for the Guggenheim Foundation

  

  Linus Pauling, reading with Linus Jr., 1925.[Happy 12th birthday to us! We began this venture in early March 2008 and today, nearly 800,000 words later, we’re... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Interviews for the Guggenheim Foundation

  

  Linus Pauling, 1940s[Happy Linus Pauling Day! Today we celebrate what would have been Pauling’s 119th birthday by continuing to dive deep into his lengthy and... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Yuri Ovchinnikov, 1934-1988

  

  Yuri OvchinnikovYuri Ovchinnikov, a friend of Linus Pauling’s and the youngest person to ever serve as vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, died... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Remembering Frank Press

  

  Frank PressLinus Pauling’s colleague and friend, Frank Press, passed away last month on January 29, 2020 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Press was 95 and died o... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling as an Adviser for the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships

  

  Linus Pauling, ca. 1940sPauling and the Guggenheim FoundationAs a member of both the Advisory Board and Committee of Selection for the John Simon Guggenheim... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Guggenheim Foundation Committee of Selection – Pauling's First Meeting

  

  Linus Pauling, 1940sPauling and the Guggenheim FoundationIn early 1940, Linus Pauling began the first of his twelve years on the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Guggenheim Foundation Advisory Board and Committee of Selection

  

  Ava Helen and Linus peeking through a train window, Spring 1938.Pauling and the Guggenheim FoundationOver the course of a decade reading Linus Pauling’s opinion... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Becoming An Asset for the Guggenheim Foundation

  

  Simon Guggenheim[Ed Note: In much the same fashion as last year’s examination of Linus Pauling’s administrative work at Caltech, the Pauling Blog is once again... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Now Accepting Applications: The Resident Scholar Program at OSU Libraries

  

  With the beginning of another year, the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC) is pleased to announce that... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2020 HISTORY, SCIENCE