The Pauling Centenary Conference

The date February 28, 2001 is meaningful to many residents of the Pacific Northwest.  At 10:54 AM that morning, the Nisqually earthquake, a magnitude 6.8 temblor located northwest of Olympia, Washington, shook the earth beneath the greater Seattle-Tacoma area and ultimately caused over $1 billion in damage.
Some 200 miles south in Corvallis, faint signs of [...]

Pauling’s Contacts with Martin Luther King, Jr.

Linus Pauling is recognized as one of the greatest peace activists of the 20th century. From the end of World War II until his death in 1994, Pauling was a central figure in the fight for nuclear disarmament and a great proponent of human rights. Though his primary focus was international peace and [...]

Pauling Inducted Into the California Hall of Fame

By our count, Linus Pauling was granted forty-seven honorary doctorates over the course of his lifetime, as well as every meaningful award that a scientist can receive.  He remains, of course, the only person to have received two unshared Nobel prizes – images of the Nobel medals and many other of his awards can be [...]

Creating The Pauling Catalogue: Special Features

[Part 8 of 9]
Thanks in part to a number of special features that have been incorporated into the published Pauling Catalogue, the finished product is far from a simple listing of archival holdings.
For starters, each volume contains an introduction by either a major historian of science, a member of the Pauling family or a staffmember [...]

Scenes from the Linus Pauling Legacy Award Lecture

A large and enthusiastic crowd convened at the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower last night to participate in the Linus Pauling Legacy Award ceremonies.
The recipient of the 2008 Pauling Legacy Award, Dr. Roderick MacKinnon of the Rockefeller University, delighted his audience with an engaging talk on the history, evolution and future promise of research on [...]

Scenes from the Pauling Postage Stamp Release

An enthusiastic crowd gathered today on the Oregon State University campus for the official Pauling stamp release event. Approximately 8,000 stamps were sold in less than two hours!
Attendees, who included the mayor of Condon, Oregon and a group of students from Linus Pauling Middle School, enjoyed brief talks by Linus Pauling, Jr. (bottom – [...]