The Building Blocks of Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Any given page in the Linus Pauling Day-by-Day calendar is the product of up to four different XML records.  These records describe the various bits of data that comprise the project – be they document summaries, images or full-text transcripts.  The data contained in the various XML records are then interpreted by XSL stylesheets, which [...]

Pauling and the Rockefeller Foundation

“We are … particularly gratified that the Institute has found it possible to make a substantial contribution which will enable you to direct a larger proportion of our aid to the study of the substances of fundamental biological importance.”
- Warren Weaver to Linus Pauling, December 27, 1934.
It is obvious from much of his scientific work [...]

Pauling’s Methodology: Electrophoresis

[Electrophoresis image extracted from the published version of Arne Tiselius' Nobel lecture, December 13, 1948.  A digitized version of this lecture is available here courtesy of the Nobel Museum.]
“The item of $7,500 for apparatus, supplies, animals would permit us to use the large number of animals required for some of our projected researches, and should [...]

The Pauling Point

“[Pauling] has a speculative mind of the first order, great analytical ability, and the genius to keep in close and inspiring touch with experimental work…. He…is nearly universally rated as the leading theoretical chemist of the world.“
- Warren Weaver. Weaver diary notes, October 1933, as referenced in Force of Nature, by Tom Hager, p. 187.
Linus [...]