A capacity crowd of some three-hundred people gathered in Portland last Thursday April 19th to hear Dr. Roald Hoffmann deliver a fascinating lecture, “Indigo: A Story of Craft, Religion, History, Science and Culture.” Dr. Hoffmann traveled to Oregon to receive the seventh Linus Pauling Legacy Award, which was granted during a dinner that preceded his public lecture. A few images of the evening are below.
[All photos by Christy Turner]
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- Roald Hoffmann delivering his Pauling Legacy Award lecture.
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- Dinner venue for the evening – The Fireside Room at the Embassy Suites Hotel, downtown Portland.
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- Dr. Hoffmann speaking with Becky Warner, OSU Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and International Programs; Brent Steele, OSU Political Science professor; and Rick Spinrad, OSU Vice President for Research.
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- Linda Richards, former OSU Libraries Resident Scholar, speaking with Linus Pauling Jr. (wearing his indigo aloha shirt!).
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- Guests mingling before dinner.
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- Guests seated for dinner. In the foreground is Ken Hedberg, a Caltech Ph.D. who worked with Pauling in the 1940s.
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- Hoffmann receiving the Pauling Legacy Award certificate from OSU University Librarian Faye Chadwell and Linus Pauling Jr.
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- Hoffmann holding the Pauling Legacy Award medal.
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- Roald Hoffmann, 2012 Pauling Legacy Award winner.
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- The large crowd gathering for Hoffmann’s lecture. Some folks showed up more than an hour early to insure a seat and one group came all the way from Astoria, nearly two hours away!
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- Faye Chadwell welcoming the audience.
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- Dr. Mary Jo Nye, OSU History of Science professor emeritus, introducing Dr. Hoffmann.
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- Roald Hoffmann in lecture.
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- Hoffmann’s lecture was filled with striking imagery.
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- Hoffmann in Israel with colleague and co-author Shira Leibowitz Schmidt. They were in search of the original source of indigo, a specific kind of Mediterranean snail.
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