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• Pauling at Stanford: Prelude

  

  [This is the first installation of a seven-part series examining Linus Pauling’s years at, and associations with, Stanford University. Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s First Paper on the Nature of the Chemical Bond

  

  Linus and Ava Helen Pauling in Munich, with Walter Heitler (left) and Fritz London (right), 1927.[An examination of Linus Pauling’s first paper on the nature... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• “The Best Work I’ve Ever Done”

  

  Linus Pauling, 1931.[An examination of Linus Pauling’s first paper on the nature of the chemical bond, published in April 1931. This is part 1 of 2. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The History of the Pauling Blog: An Archivist Reflects

  

  Red carnations left anonymously in the Valley Library Special Collections and Archives Research Center foyer on February 28, 2018 — Pauling’s 117th birthday. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The History of the Pauling Blog: Of White Whales and Other Challenges

  

  [Extracts from an interview by Tiah Edmunson-Morton with Chris Petersen, conducted on the occasion of the Pauling Blog’s tenth anniversary. This transcript has... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The History of the Pauling Blog: An Expanding Purview

  

  [Extracts from an interview by Tiah Edmunson-Morton with Chris Petersen, conducted on the occasion of the Pauling Blog’s tenth anniversary. This is part 2 of 4. Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• The History of the Pauling Blog: Origin Story

  

  [Over the next four weeks, the Pauling Blog will celebrate its tenth anniversary by sharing extracts from an oral history interview conducted with Chris... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Ten Years of the Pauling Blog

  

  It’s hard to believe and even a bit overwhelming for us to think about, but ten years ago this week the Pauling Blog came into being. Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling 117

  

  Today we mark the 117th anniversary of Linus Pauling’s birth, which took place in Portland, Oregon on February 28, 1901. At about this time last year, we... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Pauling’s Receipt of the National Medal of Science

  

  Ava Helen and Linus Pauling at the White House with President Gerald Ford and other recipients of the National Medal of Science, September 18, 1975On September... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Advocating for Polyspheron Theory Over Two Decades

  

  [Part 2 of 2]In the mid-1960s, as he continued to develop his close-packed spheron theory of atomic nuclei, Linus Pauling sought to use the techniques of... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Linus Pauling’s Polyspheron Theory

  

  [Part 1 of 2]“I consider the polyspheron theory to be a simple statement about the insight into nuclear structure that is provided by the experimental data and... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Cameron and Pauling’s Attack on Conventional Views of Cancer

  

  Announcement published in the LPISM Newsletter, Spring 1979.[An examination of “Ascorbic Acid and Cancer: A Review,” published in 1979. This is part 2 of 2. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Ascorbic Acid and Cancer: A Review

  

  Ewan Cameron, Ava Helen and Linus Pauling. Glasgow, Scotland, October 1976.[Ed Note: Today’s post is the first installment of a two-part look at Linus Pauling,... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• A Global Friendship

  

  Asima Chatterjee (front row, third from right) with her students and the Paulings, February 1967. Credit: Indian Academy of Sciences[An examination of Linus... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Asima Chatterjee

  

  [Ed note: A Google Doodle published in September 2017 featured a name familiar to us — the groundbreaking Indian scientist Asima Chatterjee — and prompted us... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2018 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Saving General Chemistry

  

  Front cover of the Dover reprint edition of General Chemistry, 1988.[Our seventh and final post examining the history of Linus Pauling’s textbook, General... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• General Chemistry – The Third and Final Edition

  

  [An examination of General Chemistry, published by Linus Pauling seventy years ago. This is part 6 of 7.]By the time that Linus Pauling was preparing to revise... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• General Chemistry Goes Abroad

  

  [An examination of General Chemistry, published by Linus Pauling seventy years ago. This is part 5 of 7.]General Chemistry has been translated into twelve... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE

• General Chemistry, Second Edition

  

  [An examination of General Chemistry, published by Linus Pauling seventy years ago. This is part 4 of 7.]Linus Pauling and his publisher, William H. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2017 HISTORY, SCIENCE