Scenes from the 2012 Linus Pauling Legacy Award

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]

Roald Hoffmann delivering his Pauling Legacy Award lecture.

Dinner venue for the evening – The Fireside Room at the Embassy Suites Hotel, downtown Portland.

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.

Linda Richards, former OSU Libraries Resident Scholar, speaking with Linus Pauling Jr. (wearing his indigo aloha shirt!).

Guests mingling before dinner.

Guests seated for dinner. In the foreground is Ken Hedberg, a Caltech Ph.D. who worked with Pauling in the 1940s.

Hoffmann receiving the Pauling Legacy Award certificate from OSU University Librarian Faye Chadwell and Linus Pauling Jr.

Hoffmann holding the Pauling Legacy Award medal.

Roald Hoffmann, 2012 Pauling Legacy Award winner.

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!

Faye Chadwell welcoming the audience.

Dr. Mary Jo Nye, OSU History of Science professor emeritus, introducing Dr. Hoffmann.

Roald Hoffmann in lecture.

Hoffmann’s lecture was filled with striking imagery.

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.