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"Linus Pauling, Crusading Scientist." 1977. Produced for NOVA by Robert Richter/WGBH-Boston. A Short Autobiography. (1:57)

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Linus Pauling: Well this is my history. I went to Pasadena in 1922 as a graduate student. Got my Ph.D. in 1925. Was a National Research Council Fellow for eight months, seven months and a Guggenheim Fellow for 19 months. My wife and I got married in the meantime. My wife and I went to Europe then, studied various places. We came back, I was assistant professor then associate professor than professor, and then chairman of the division for 22 years, division of chemistry and chemical engineering and so on.

We were going to Puerto Rico, my wife and I, to give a lecture some ten years ago, no more than that, fifteen years ago. And we landed in Miami and had four hours before the plane took off for Puerto Rico. So I said let's rent a car and look around the place, see if whether Florida is what it's cracked up to be. And I went in to rent a car and had to fill out a big form; employed and who's your employer, how long employed. So I put down forty years and the fellow said: "you're in a rut out there aren't you?" Well after 42 years, of course, I went to the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara for three years and then to San Diego, La Jolla, UC-San Diego for two years and then to Stanford as professor of chemistry for five years and then was retired and have been at my present job for a couple of years. So that's a short and simple history of my life.

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Date: 1977
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ID: 1977v.66
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