Linus Pauling and the Search for UFOs

Upon Linus Pauling’s death, the OSU Libraries Special Collections received approximately 500,000 of his and his wife’s personal items. Of this half-million item collection, a significant portion is comprised of his personal books which range from heavily academic texts to science fiction and murder mysteries. Amid the shelves of chemistry texts and genre [...]

Pauling’s Work on Swine Flu

The current concern over the world-wide spread of swine flu virus brings to mind research that Dr. Linus Pauling conducted on this very subject, some thirty-three years ago.
Pauling’s interest in swine flu seems to have been stoked by a convergence of two factors: 1) mounting fears over a potential swine flu epidemic that first emerged [...]

Family Legislation: Rules for the Children

Much has been said about Linus Pauling as a student, scientist, researcher and activist. Here at the Pauling Blog, we’ve discussed his professional achievements in great deal and focused on key moments in his career and personal life. Despite all this, little attention has been given to Pauling as a father and a [...]

Clarifying Three Widespread Quotes

When we find ourselves with a few spare moments, one of our favorite pastimes is conducting Google Blogsearch queries for the term “Linus Pauling.”  Typically we come across a few of the more recent posts that we ourselves have published, catch up with the latest news from The Linus Pauling Quartet and sometimes unearth interesting [...]

Cancer and Vitamin C Redux

The conversation concerning the possible use of vitamin C in the treatment of cancer continues to gather momentum. 
As we’ve noted before on the PaulingBlog, the possibility that ascorbic acid might be a useful tool in the fight against cancer was a topic of intense interest to Linus Pauling and a handful of his [...]

Beaver Pep

“Q – What is your reaction to Sandy Koufax leaving the Dodgers?“
“A – I haven’t really developed a reaction to that.  Doesn’t the young man have some kind of a pain in his arm?“
-”Scientific Genius Dotes On Comic Strips, Miniskirts, But Can’t Cure Golfer’s Slice,” The (Portland) Oregonian, December 2, 1966.
[Photo by Andy Cripe, (Corvallis) [...]

The Paternal Ancestry of Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling’s earliest known ancestor was Andreas Pauling, born ca. 1630.  Records indicate that Andreas’ grandson, Johann Christoph Pauling, married and started a family in Preusslitz, Prussia.  There the Paulings remained for at least two generations, until Johann Andreas Pauling (perhaps the grandson of Johann Christoph) move to Golbitz, in what is now western Germany.
In [...]

Roger Hayward and Linus Pauling

[Part 4 of 4. Questions about Roger Hayward may be directed to the authors of this text -- Dr. J.R. Kramer, Miriam Kramer and John Benjamin -- at jkramer2[at]cogeco.ca]
Linus Pauling may have learned about Roger Hayward and his “drafting” talent in the early 1930s. Hayward had designed several new architectural structures in the [...]

Roger Hayward (1899-1979): The Western Years, Part 2

[This is the third installment of the PaulingBlog's four part biographical series on Roger Hayward. The text that follows was compiled by Dr. J.R. Kramer, Miriam Kramer and John Benjamin, who may be reached at jkramer2[at]cogeco.ca]

Architecture took off after the war, and in 1949 Roger Hayward became a partner in the firm Lunden, Hayward and [...]

Roger Hayward (1899-1979): The Western Years, Part 1

[This is the second of four installments of the PaulingBlog's Roger Hayward biographical series. The text that follows was compiled by Dr. J.R. Kramer, Miriam Kramer and John Benjamin, who may be reached at jkramer2[at]cogeco.ca]
At the prodding of S.E. Lunden, a classmate and colleague at Cram and Ferguson, Roger left Boston for Los Angeles [...]