2022-11-03 20:32
Long-time readers will have noticed that it’s been awfully quiet around here in recent months. There are many reasons for this, but one of the biggest is a project that we’re… Read More
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2022-02-28 18:36
Happy Linus Pauling Day! In commemoration of Pauling’s birth 121 years ago, Dr. John Westerdahl of the Health & Longevity podcast interviewed Dr. Emily Ho, director of the Linus Pa… Read More
2021-11-03 15:00
Linus Pauling, 1949
As we have written elsewhere, Linus Pauling developed and championed the theory of resonance early on in his career. But for almost 20 years, the ways that metals migh… Read More
2021-10-27 20:04
Linus Pauling, Max Delbrück and Max Perutz at the American Chemical Society centennial meeting, New York. April 6, 1976.
In 1940 Linus Pauling, along with colleague Max Delbrück… Read More
2021-10-20 15:00
Linus Pauling, ca. 1930s
“In recent years I have formed, on the basis of mainly empirical arguments, a conception of the nature of the interatomic forces in metals which has some no… Read More
2021-10-13 19:58
Linus and Ava Helen Pauling in Copenhagen, May 1927
[Ed Note: Today and in the three posts that will follow, we will be taking a close look at four important scientific articles published… Read More
2021-10-06 15:00
Ava Helen Miller, ca. 1922. Note annotation by Linus Pauling: “Ava Helen about when I met her.”
[Part 2 of 2]
Ava Helen Miller entered Oregon Agriculture College, now Orego… Read More
2021-09-29 15:00
Ava Helen Miller, fall 1921
[Part 1 of 2]
Ava Helen Miller entered Oregon Agricultural College (OAC), now known as Oregon State University, in the fall of 1921. She spent a total of fi… Read More
2021-09-22 15:00
[Ed Note: School starts today here at Oregon State University! As we have for the previous four years, we take this opportunity to look back at Linus Pauling’s undergraduate experi… Read More
2021-07-21 17:49
Linus Pauling at the Oregon coast with his cousin Rowena, summer 1918
We’re taking a few weeks off! We’ll resume our usual posting schedule in September — please check b… Read More
2021-07-07 19:15
[Part 9 of 9]
In 2018, a third edition of Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling’s book, Cancer and Vitamin C, was published. Released nearly a quarter century after Pauling’s dea… Read More
2021-06-23 15:00
Pauling in 1989. Photo by Paolo M. Sutter.[Part 8 of 9]
When the first edition of their book, Cancer and Vitamin C, was published in 1979, popular support for the curative powers of vitam… Read More
2021-06-16 15:00
Linus Pauling, 1979
[Part 7 of 9]
In their 1979 book, Cancer and Vitamin C, Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling sought to explore the potential for vitamin C to treat or even cure a disease… Read More
2021-06-09 15:00
Pauling at the chalkboard, 1979.[Part 6 of 9]
Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling’s 1979 book, Cancer and Vitamin C, was rooted in the most sound scientific understanding that could be c… Read More
2021-05-26 15:00
The Camerons and the Paulings in Scotland, 1974
[Part 5 of 9]
Cancer and Vitamin C, by Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling, was first published in 1979. A second edition was released in 199… Read More
2021-05-19 15:00
Diary entry by Linus Pauling, 1980. The text reads: “L[inus] P[auling] / Found enzymes enthralling / He was filled with glee / By Vitamin C”[Reading Cameron and Pauling’s… Read More
2021-05-12 15:00
James Lind
[Reading Cancer and Vitamin C, part 3 of 9]
In their 1979 book, Cancer and Vitamin C, Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling made clear that vitamin C was uniquely suited to fight c… Read More
2021-05-05 15:00
Ewan Cameron, Ava Helen and Linus Pauling. Glasgow, Scotland, October 1976.
[An analysis of Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling’s book, Cancer and Vitamin C. This is part 2 of 9.]
In… Read More
2021-04-28 15:00
[An exploration of Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling’s influential – and controversial – 1979 book. This introductory post is part 1 of 9.]
Despite all of the research… Read More
2021-04-14 15:00
[Part 2 of 2]
The second half of the Linus Pauling Institute’s annual Pauling Day event was devoted to a question-and-answer session with the day’s panel speakers: Anitra Carr… Read More
2021-04-07 17:16
[Part 1 of 2]
On February 27, 2021, the Linus Pauling Institute (LPI) at Oregon State University hosted its annual Linus Pauling Day celebration, using the occasion to also mark twenty-fi… Read More
2021-03-31 15:00
ASA leaflet with Pauling’s annotations, circa 1971
[Part 9 of 9]
Throughout his long advocacy of an orthomolecular approach to mental disease, Linus Pauling weathered intense ske… Read More
2021-03-24 15:00
Jean Mayer. Credit: Tufts University
[Part 8 of 9]
“I am afraid you and Jean Mayer will have to lock horns. Read the attached clipping. He is doing you a lot of harm.”… Read More
2021-03-17 15:00
Linus Pauling, 1977.
[Part 7 of 10]
As we have seen, a primary objective of Linus Pauling’s work on schizophrenia was to establish the therapy as legitimate and to push it closer… Read More
2021-03-10 15:00
[Part 6 of 10]
“Even in the starchiest Establishment criticism, there lurk phrases or hints that just maybe Linus and his buddies have something – if only they would get t… Read More
2021-03-03 15:00
[Ed Note: The Pauling Blog becomes a teenager this week! On March 4, 2008 we introduced ourselves to the world with our first post. Thirteen years later, we’re thrilled to be publi… Read More
2021-02-24 15:00
[Wishing an early happy birthday to Linus Pauling, who would have turned 120 years old this coming Sunday. To celebrate, we continue our survey of his work on schizophrenia; this is part 4 o… Read More
2021-02-17 15:00
[Part 3 of 10]
“I feel, accordingly, that it is the duty of every psychiatrist to add megavitamin therapy, orthomolecular methods, to his armamentarium, and to make use of these vit… Read More
2021-02-10 15:00
Irwin Stone. (Image by Oscar Falconi)
[Part 2 of 10]
“I have decided, on the basis of the evidence presented by Irwin Stone, that there is very strong evidence now, that most hum… Read More
2021-02-03 15:00
Abram Hoffer and Linus Pauling at the symposium, “Adjuvant Nutrition in Cancer Treatment,” Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 1992.
[Part 1 of 10]
“If there is evidence, for e… Read More
2021-01-27 15:00
Three-dimensional rendering of sickle cell anemia blood cells. Credit: National Institutes of Health.
By Dr. Marcus Calkins, Part 3 of 3
Forty years after Linus Pauling and his lab dem… Read More
2021-01-20 15:00
Harvey Itano, 1954. Image credit: Caltech Archives.
By Dr. Marcus Calkins, Part 2 of 3
The molecular defect in Sickle cell disease was demonstrated by Linus Pauling’s lab in 1949… Read More
2021-01-13 15:00
Pastel drawing of sickled hemoglobin cells by Roger Hayward, 1964
By Dr. Marcus Calkins
[Ed Note: This is the first of three posts examining the history of sickle cell treatment up to… Read More
2020-12-23 15:00
[Part 7 of 7]
“The Nature of the Chemical Bond. VII. The Calculation of Resonance Energy inConjugated Systems.” The Journal of Chemical Physics, October 1933
The final pape… Read More
2020-12-16 15:00
Table of resonance energy calculations for condensed ring systems
[Part 6 of 7]
“The Nature of the Chemical Bond. VI. The Calculation from Thermochemical Data of the Energy of Re… Read More
2020-12-09 00:47
[What follows is Part 5 of 7 in this series. It is also the 800th blog post published by the Pauling Blog.]
“The Nature of the Chemical Bond. V. The Quantum-Mechanical Calculati… Read More
2020-12-02 15:00
[Part 4 of 7]
“The Nature of the Chemical Bond. IV. The Energy of Single Bonds and the Relative Electronegativity of Atoms.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, Septembe… Read More
2020-11-18 15:00
[Part 3 of 7]
“The Nature of the Chemical Bond. III. The Transition from One Extreme Bond Type to Another.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, March 1932.
In his… Read More
2020-11-11 15:00
Linus Pauling, 1931.
[Part 2 of 7]
“The nature of the chemical bond. II. The one-electron bond and the three-electron bond.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, Septe… Read More
2020-10-28 15:00
[Looking back on Linus Pauling’s junior year at Oregon Agricultural College. This is part 3 of 3.]
The 1920-21 academic year at Oregon Agricultural College was, in many respects, a… Read More
2020-10-21 15:00
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 to an academic tr… Read More
2020-10-14 15:00
“Peany” Pauling – “a prodigy, yet in his teens.”
[A look back at Linus Pauling’s undergraduate experience at Oregon Agricultural College one-hundred ye… Read More
2020-10-07 15:00
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 of Linus Pauling’s un… Read More
2020-09-30 15:00
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 with President John F. Kenne… Read More
2020-09-24 00:32
Pauling speaking to students at San Jose City College, April 12, 1962
[Part 4 of 4]
Linus Pauling’s public relationship with John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev was not dissimi… Read More
2020-09-16 22:10
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 correspondence John F. Kenne… Read More
2020-09-09 22:29
Nikita Khruschev. [Credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild][Documenting Linus Pauling’s communications with John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khruschev. This is post 2 of 4.]
As we saw in our last post… Read More
2020-09-02 23:57
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 John F. Ke… Read More
2020-08-26 15:00
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 research as a… Read More
2020-08-20 00:13
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, J… Read More
2020-08-12 15:00
Lecturing on structural chemistry at the Richards Medal ceremony. Pauling received this award from the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society in 1947.
[Linus Pauling and th… Read More
2020-08-05 19:00
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 5.]
“Modern structu… Read More
2020-07-29 15:00
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 delivered from 1946-1951 that… Read More
2020-07-15 15:00
[Part 7 of 7]
Even though the resonance controversy was largely one contested between Soviet scientists and Linus Pauling, many outside members of the scientific public, as well as the me… Read More
2020-07-08 15:00
“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, scientist… Read More
2020-06-24 15:00
[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 state itself. The pr… Read More
2020-06-17 23:11
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 points of view. Indeed… Read More
2020-06-10 20:48
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 understanding chemi… Read More
2020-06-03 23:06
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 resonance theory because o… Read More
2020-05-27 20:51
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. Today we begin a much more de… Read More
2020-05-20 22:36
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 with the John Simon… Read More
2020-05-13 23:12
The Paulings in India, 1955
[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]
In 1950, the Indian government invited Linus Pauling to spend six weeks visiting and lecturing at several of the cou… Read More
2020-05-06 22:35
Linus Pauling and George Beadle, circa 1950s
[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]
At the end of 1952, Guggenheim Foundation Secretary Henry Allen Moe found himself working night and… Read More
2020-04-29 19:07
Vannevar Bush
[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]
Linus Pauling and Henry Allen Moe, Secretary of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, lived on opposite coasts but built… Read More
2020-04-22 22:07
Robert Corey
[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]
In 1949, as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation tested out its new style of fellowships for established researchers, scho… Read More
2020-04-15 21:57
Letter from Henry Allen Moe to Linus Pauling, November 1951
[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]
Melvin Newman’s difficulties working under the fellowship conditions stipulate… Read More
2020-04-08 18:33
Melvin Newman
[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]
As the Second World War receded into the past, scientists in the United States increasingly turned away from national defense rese… Read More
2020-04-01 18:35
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 seco… Read More
2020-03-25 18:05
Walter Pitts
[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]
Linus Pauling’s roles on two John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation committees – the Committee of Selection and the… Read More
2020-03-19 01:43
[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]
The onset of World War II greatly reduced the quantity of applicants seeking fellowship support from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation… Read More
2020-03-11 15:00
Linus Pauling, 1950s
[Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation]
During the years of Linus Pauling’s association with the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, many high profile… Read More
2020-03-04 15:00
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 excited to still be e… Read More
2020-02-28 15:00
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 important association… Read More
2020-02-19 15:00
Yuri Ovchinnikov
Yuri Ovchinnikov, a friend of Linus Pauling’s and the youngest person to ever serve as vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, died thirty-two years ago t… Read More
2020-02-12 15:00
Frank Press
Linus 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 of complications from… Read More
2020-02-05 15:00
Linus Pauling, ca. 1940s
Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation
As a member of both the Advisory Board and Committee of Selection for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Linu… Read More
2020-01-29 15:00
Linus Pauling, 1940s
Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation
In early 1940, Linus Pauling began the first of his twelve years on the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s Com… Read More
2020-01-22 15:00
Ava Helen and Linus peeking through a train window, Spring 1938.
Pauling and the Guggenheim Foundation
Over the course of a decade reading Linus Pauling’s opinions on several Gug… Read More
2020-01-15 15:00
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 going long for… Read More
2020-01-08 15:00
With the beginning of another year, the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC) is pleased to announce that applications are once agai… Read More
2019-12-18 18:58
[Ed Note: We conclude our posting schedule for 2019 with this look at a controversy from sixty-two years ago. See you again in January!]
Linus Pauling’s largely congenial relationsh… Read More
2019-12-11 22:30
[Part 2 of 2]
Linus Pauling’s relationship with the scientist and peace activist Andrei Sakharov – a kindred spirit whom he never met – began in unusual fashion. In 1978… Read More
2019-12-04 20:23
[Part 1 of 2]
Esteemed scientist, subject to ridicule in his home country, becomes outspoken opponent of nuclear weapons testing and wins Nobel Peace Prize with activist wife by his s… Read More
2019-11-20 20:44
On August 30, 1983, almost exactly 250 years after the birth of famous chemist Joseph Priestley, Linus Pauling was offered the most prestigious award granted by the American Chemical Soc… Read More
2019-11-13 20:14
Joseph Priestley
[Ed Note: This is the 750th post published by the Pauling Blog since its creation in March 2008.]
Joseph Priestley was born in Yorkshire, England on March 13, 1733 to… Read More
2019-11-06 20:07
“Dr. Brockway is the most able, prolific, energetic, and promising young man with whom I have ever been associated.”
– Linus Pauling. Letter to the American Chemical So… Read More
2019-10-30 22:23
Pauling seated with Wilbur Miller and Gene McGuane for a radio broadcast sponsored by the Western Connecticut section of the American Chemical Society, 1949[Part 4 of 4]
As Linus Pauling… Read More
2019-10-23 18:50
[Part 3 of 4.]
Although Linus Pauling’s political activities were a source of irritation to many in the American Chemical Society, they did not seem to diminish his popularity to an… Read More
2019-10-16 15:00
[An examination of Linus Pauling’s year as president of the American Chemical Society. This is part 2 of 4.]
Having weathered the Henry Wallace controversy, Pauling entered into… Read More
2019-10-09 15:15
[An analysis of Linus Pauling’s tenure as President of the ACS, published on the fifty-year anniversary of his holding the office. This is part 1 of 4.]
Linus Pauling was elected fu… Read More
2019-10-02 19:45
“Feminine Section Intrafraternity Smoker,” 1919-1920. Linus Pauling is seated at front, far right.[The third and final installment of our look at Linus Pauling’s experience… Read More
2019-09-25 18:26
A view of the OAC campus looking east toward Corvallis, circa 1920. At right is Science Hall, where Linus Pauling taught chemistry as an 18-year old instructor.[A look back at Linus Pauling… Read More
2019-09-18 17:54
Paul Emmett and Linus Pauling, circa 1919[Ed Note: Next week, school begins anew here at Oregon State University. And as has become tradition at around this time, we reflect back today on Li… Read More
2019-09-11 15:00
Wire article published in the New York Daily News, April 17, 1970
[Part 2 of 2]
In June 1970, Linus Pauling accepted the International Lenin Peace Prize for Strengthening Peace Among P… Read More
2019-09-04 15:00
Dmitry Skobeltsyn, Linus Pauling, Marilla [?] and Ava Helen Pauling, Lenin Prize ceremonies, June 15, 1970 [Part 1 of 2]
“Now is the time for us to change from our immoral course… Read More
2019-08-28 18:04
A little more than six months after Linus Pauling died, a remarkable gathering took place at Oregon State University. A conference titled “The Life and Work of Linus Pauling: A Discour… Read More
2019-08-19 10:00
Stephen Lawson and Linus Pauling celebrating at Pauling’s 90th birthday party, 1991By Stephen Lawson
August 19th 1994. Linus Pauling had been ensconced at his ranch on the beautiful… Read More
2019-08-14 15:00
Linus Pauling, 1988. Image credit: Albert DadianThe Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers at Oregon State University Libraries include more than 3,000 newspaper clippings that focus on Linus Pa… Read More
2019-08-07 15:00
At 7:20 PM on August 19, 1994, Linus Pauling passed away, a victim of rectal and prostate cancer. Twenty-five years later, the Pauling Blog will be devoting the month of August to rememberin… Read More
2019-07-31 19:27
The Washington A. Roebling Medal, presented to Linus Pauling in 1967“I remember that when my wife and I visited Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Lambarene a number of years ago, I suggested to… Read More
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