“There is no substitute for doing things with your own hands.”

In the archival world, scrapbooks are typically regarded to be “high-value” items, deserving of close descriptive and preservation attentions.  As we work our way through the arrangement and description of the Roger Hayward Papers, we are reminded again as to why scrapbooks are held in such high regard. Though the Hayward Papers consist primarily of [...]

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 colleagues [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 LA [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Roger Hayward (1899-1979): Architect, Artist, Illustrator, Inventor, Scientist

[Editors Note: The Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections is very pleased to announce that it will soon serve as home to the Roger Hayward Papers. Hayward was a hugely-talented artist who, among many other projects, collaborated with Linus Pauling as illustrator to a number of Pauling's books, most notably The Architecture of Molecules (1964). [...]

The Paulings and the Kennedys

“Mrs. Kennedy said, ‘Dr. Pauling do you think that it is right to march back and forth out there in front of the White House carrying a sign and cause Caroline to say, Mummy, what has Daddy done wrong now?’ I thought that was pretty clever.“ -Linus Pauling. NOVA Interview. June 1977. The “thousand days” [...]

Featured Document: Angry and Frustrated, Pauling Considers a Run for the U.S. Presidency

Though often encouraged to, Linus Pauling never ran for elected office. From the vantage point of his peace work, Pauling believed himself to be a far more effective agent for change when working in an environment that was essentially unencumbered by political considerations. Of at least equal importance was the fact that the time commitments [...]