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• First Years as Division Chair: Making Recommendations, Coping with an...

  

  [Pauling as Administrator]With its brand new building and innovative, well-funded research program, the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2019 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• First Years as Division Chair: Implementing the Rockefeller Grant and...

  

  Image of the Crellin Laboratory taken around the time of its dedication in 1938.[Pauling as Administrator]Towards the end of the summer of 1937, Linus Pauling... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2019 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• First Years as Division Chair: Responsibilities Large and Small

  

  Pasadena Post, May 5, 1937[Pauling as Administrator]During the final phase of Linus Pauling’s ascension into the positions of Chairman of the Division of... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2019 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Becoming Division Chair: Pauling Takes the Reins

  

  Linus Pauling, 1936.[Pauling as Administrator]In mid-July 1936, Pauling received a thought-provoking letter from Christopher Kelk Ingold of University College... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2019 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Becoming Division Chair: Staffing a New Laboratory, Noyes’ Death, and a...

  

  Architectural schematic for the third floor of the Crellin Laboratory.[Pauling as Administrator]In November 1935, Edward Crellin, a retired Pasadena steel... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2019 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Becoming Division Chair: The Division Council, Pauling’s Demur, and Weaver’s...

  

  Linus Pauling, 1935[Pauling as Administrator]In 1935, after being diagnosed with colon cancer, A.A. Noyes knew that he would soon have to step down from his... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2019 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling as Administrator: Becoming Division Chair

  

  [Ed Note: Over the past eleven years, one of the Pauling Blog’s areas of interest has been the exploration of different institutions with which Linus Pauling wa... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2019 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• A Vision for the Future of the Linus Pauling Institute

  

  [An interview with LPI director Richard van Breemen, part 3 of 3. This is also our final post for 2018 — see you again in early January! Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Exploring the Possibilities of Mass Spectrometry: An Interview with Richard Van...

  

  [In part 2 of our interview with Linus Pauling Institute Director Richard van Breemen, we trace the evolution of his career in scientific research, first at... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Getting to Know Richard Van Breemen

  

  Richard van Breemen[The end of 2018 will mark the conclusion of Richard van Breemen’s first year as director of the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Lomonosov Gold Medal

  

  The late 1970s, a period still defined by Cold War tensions, was full of obstacles for Linus Pauling. Living in California, Pauling had been confronted with a... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Induction into the Soviet Academy of Sciences

  

  On June 20, 1958, in the midst of the Cold War and almost exactly 25 years after being inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, Linus Pauling was... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Induction into the National Academy of Sciences

  

  Since its formation in 1863, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has been a home of sorts for the country’s (and a few of the world’s) most distinguished... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Gibbs Medal

  

  On June 14, 1946, Linus and Ava Helen Pauling traveled to Chicago to attend a dinner recognizing Linus Pauling as the thirty-fifth recipient of the Josiah... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The Langmuir Award

  

  In 1931 Linus Pauling was early on in his career as a professor at the California Institute of Technology, and was deep into a program of research on... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• James LuValle, the Olympic Chemist

  

  “Mr. LuValle has made an excellent record in his graduate work with us. He is classed in the upper group of our graduate students, despite the fact that the... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Evolution and the Need for Ascorbic Acid

  

  Linus Pauling, 1970Linus Pauling’s belief in the value of vitamin C emerged from many sources, but key among them was the fact that humans, for most of their... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s OAC: Sophomore Social Life

  

  [An examination of Linus Pauling’s sophomore year at Oregon Agricultural College, which began in Fall 1918. This is part 3 of 3. Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s OAC: Life During Wartime

  

  SATC cadets being addressed by OAC President William Jasper Kerr, October 1, 1918.[Examining Linus Pauling’s sophomore year at Oregon Agricultural College, the... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s OAC: Sophomore Year

  

  Linus Pauling, age 17.[Ed Note: Another academic year begins this week at Oregon State University. This fall also marks the 100th anniversary of Linus... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE