Pauling and Environmental Justice

(Ed. note: Toshihiro Higuchi of Georgetown University, a 2009 Pauling Resident Scholar award winner, spent a month in Oregon State University’s Valley Library this past summer working with the Pauling Papers. The following is excerpted from his final research report.)
Archival research is always full of unexpected discoveries about the past, and my project at [...]

New Image Search and Catalogue Pages

Continuing the theme from our last post, Redesigning our Web Presence, here is a closer look at how we built the new Image Search feature as well as what it takes to create the catalogue pages showing the detailed holdings of our collections.
New Image Search Feature
Our main web search feature, now on all of our [...]

Toshihiro Higuchi, Resident Scholar

Toshihiro Higuchi is the second individual this year to conduct research in Special Collections under the sponsorship of our Resident Scholar Program.
Originally from Japan, Higuchi first attended the University of Tsukuba on the Japanese island of Honshu. In 2002 he graduated with an M.A. in International Political Economy, after which he again entered the University [...]

DNA: The Aftermath

The solving of the double helix structure of DNA is now considered to be one of the most important discoveries in modern scientific history. The structure itself suggested a possible mechanism for its own replication, and it also opened up a huge window of opportunity for advances in multiple fields ranging from biology to genetics [...]

Letters to Peter

“You know how children are threatened ‘You had better be good or the bad ogre will come get you.’ Well, for more than a year, Francis and others have been saying to the nucleic acid people at King’s ‘You had better work hard or Pauling will get interested in nucleic acids.’”
-Peter Pauling. Letter to Linus [...]

Chargaff’s Rules

“We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much-maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the [...]

The Hershey-Chase Blender Experiments

“When asked what his idea of happiness would be, [Hershey] replied, ‘to have an experiment that works, and do it over and over again.’”
- Jonathan [...]

The Hiroshima Appeal

“The principal action of the Fifth World Conference was to prepare and approve this statement, which is called The Hiroshima Appeal. I enclose a copy of this Appeal, which seems to me to be a good document.”
-Linus Pauling, letter to Gunnar Jahn, September 4, 1959.
Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Hiroshima Appeal, written [...]

A Voyage on the Peace Ship

“The invasion of Nicaragua by the United States, either by sending in the Marines or by use of forces financed and directed by the United States, would be a disgraceful action that would remain a blot on our record forever. The American people must insist that our government stop dominating and exploiting our Latin [...]

The Passport Imbroglio

A quick glance at the “Today in Linus Pauling” widget found at the top of the left sidebar of the Pauling Blog gives an excellent representation of the span and influence of Linus Pauling’s career. Rarely does a day go by where he didn’t write at least one manuscript or give a speech at a [...]