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Document Summaries, Illustrations and Transcripts for 1960 Added to Linus Pauling Day-by-Day Site
May 12, 2009 –
Descriptions of nearly 8,000 documents as well as fifty-four illustrations and eighty-eight full-text transcripts, all dating to the year 1960, are the latest addition to the growing "Linus Pauling Day-by-Day" project.
1960 was a difficult year for Linus and Ava Helen Pauling, one marked by two especially-harrowing incidents.
At the end of January 1960, having become lost while walking near his coastal home, Pauling was forced to spend nearly twenty-four hours trapped on a cliff some 300-feet above the Pacific Ocean. Though not physically harmed, the experience shook Pauling deeply.
An even greater source of stress emerged in the early summer, when Pauling was summoned to testify before the United States Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Suspicious of Pauling’s peace activities, the Subcommittee demanded that Pauling reveal the names of those individuals who assisted both he and his wife in their circulation of the famous United Nations Bomb Test Petition. Though threatened with imprisonment for contempt of Congress, Pauling refused to divulge the requested information. After two tense hearings and a great deal of media attention, the Subcommittee ultimately relented and Pauling was not penalized.
As with all of the years featured in "Linus Pauling Day-by-Day," the 1960 release is comprised of thousands of text summaries, multi-page illustrations and transcripts of items held in the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers. With the inclusion of the 1960 content, the project now boasts of well-over 76,000 activities listings, 1,700 illustrations and 2,000 transcripts.
"Linus Pauling Day-by-Day" is available at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/calendar/index.html
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Illustrated Chronology Released in Honor of Pauling Birthday
February 27, 2009 –
A detailed chronology of Linus Pauling's ancestry, life and work has been released in celebration of the 108th anniversary of Dr. Pauling's birth.
Written by biographer Dr. Robert Paradowski of the Rochester Institute of Technology, the twenty-eight page Pauling Chronology is the most authoritative overview of
Pauling's life available on the web.
Pauling was born on February 28, 1901 in Portland, Oregon. Paradowski's chronology traces Pauling's ancestry to his earliest known relatives in Germany before describing Pauling's development from his formative years in Oregon, through his early work as a young Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology, his crowning achievements as history's only recipient of two unshared Nobel Prizes, and his attention-grabbing research on vitamin C.
Within his narrative, Paradowski also sheds light on some of the less-celebrated aspects of Pauling's career, including his
extensive program of scientific war work, his residence at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions and his subsequent moves to the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University.
The text of the Pauling Chronology is amplified through the inclusion of dozens of high-resolution images that illustrate
key episodes in Pauling's biography. The resource also incorporates hundreds of links to primary source materials for those
users interested in a deeper exploration of Linus and Ava Helen Pauling's remarkable stories.
The Pauling Chronology is available at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/chronology/page1.html
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OSU Libraries Special Collections Seeks Applicants for Resident Scholar Program
February 18, 2009 –
Research grants are being made available to scholars interested in conducting work in the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers at OSU Libraries Special Collections. Stipends of $2,500 per month renewable for up to three months (for a total maximum
grant award of $7,500) will be made available to researchers in the history of science whose proposals detail a compelling
potential use of the materials held in the vast Pauling archive. Grant monies can be used for any purpose.
Researchers will be expected to conduct their scholarly activities while in residence at the OSU Libraries Special Collections.
Historians, librarians, doctoral or post-doctoral students and independent scholars are welcome to apply. The deadline for
applying for Resident Scholar Program support is April 30, 2009.
Detailed information outlining the qualifications necessary for application, the selection process and the conditions under
which awards will be made is available at the following PDF: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/residentscholar.pdf
The Resident Scholar Program is generously supported by the Peter and Judith Freeman Fund.
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Thirty Years of Data Now Accessible in Revamped "Linus Pauling Day-by-Day" Website
January 30, 2009 –
An unprecedented accounting of Linus Pauling's life from the years 1930 to 1959 is now available at the revised and enhanced
"Linus Pauling Day-by-Day" website. Comprised of more than 69,000 document summaries, nearly 1,700 illustrations and close to 2,000 full-text correspondence
transcripts, "Linus Pauling Day-by-Day" is a landmark resource for researchers interested in Linus Pauling, Ava Helen Pauling
and their times.
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the "Linus Pauling Day-by-Day" project, and pieces of it have been released at different
points in time over the past decade. Noteable new features of this latest incarnation include:
A homepage providing access to each of the thirty years worth of images, descriptions and data now available -- all of it presented
in a searchable, user-friendly calendar format.
Index pages for each year that include an engaging overview of the major activities in which the world-renowned scientist and peace activist
participated.
Access to thousands of pages of digitized photographs, drawings and documents that illustrate each week of Pauling's life from 1930-1959. (or, in the case of 1954, his first Nobel year, each day)
Full-text transcripts of nearly two-thousand letters, including scores of fascinating communications between members of the Pauling family.
Five years worth of content description (1955-1959) that had not been previously released. [Check out what Pauling was doing fifty years ago today!]
"Linus Pauling Day-by-Day" is available at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/calendar/index.html
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Enhanced "It’s in the Blood!" Documentary History Website Now Available
October 22, 2008 –
A revised and expanded version of the website "It’s in the Blood! A Documentary History of Linus Pauling, Hemoglobin and Sickle Cell Anemia" has been released by the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections. Originally launched in March 2005, "It’s
in the Blood!" details the body of work that has led many to now regard Pauling as "the father of molecular biology."
Beginning with a series of early investigations into the structure of hemoglobin, Pauling earned worldwide acclaim for his groundbreaking discoveries in immunochemistry, biological structure and the study of disease. Perhaps most importantly, Pauling was the first scientist to hypothesize
the concept of a "molecular disease." Working with a brilliant group of colleagues at the California Institute of Technology, Pauling successfully isolated the
root cause of sickle cell anemia as a molecular abnormality – a discovery of great import for scientists and medical doctors
alike.
Pauling went on to develop a number of additional ideas important to the modern understanding of biology and medicine. Among
those covered by "It’s in the Blood!" are his and Emile Zuckerkandl’s theory of the molecular evolutionary clock, Pauling’s sometimes controversial thinking on genetic counseling, and the roots of his passionate interest in the concept of orthomolecular medicine – a subject that dominated his research focus for the last two decades of his life
The foundation of "It’s in the Blood!" is a forty-six chapter narrative, written by historian Dr. Melinda Gormley, that details many of the fascinating and highly-varied contributions that Pauling
made to the study of human health and functioning. Amplifying the narrative are over 800 pages of digitized letters, manuscripts and published papers, nearly 100 photographs and drawings, and dozens of audio excerpts and video clips. In addition, the bulk of Pauling’s personal and professional activities for the years 1930-1954 are detailed in calendar
form through the unique and growing "Linus Pauling Day-By-Day" project.
Highlights of the enhanced "It’s in the Blood!" site include large troves of material related to Harvey Itano, Dan Campbell, Robert Corey, William Castle and many other key participants in Pauling’s biological investigations; nineteen published papers and official documents not previously released; and nearly fifteen minutes of new audio and video. The text of Dr. Gormley's masters thesis, from which the website narrative was adapted, is also available on the site
as a downloadable PDF. (1.8 MB)
"It’s in the Blood! A Documentary History of Linus Pauling, Hemoglobin and Sickle Cell Anemia" is available at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/blood/index.html
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The Pauling Student Learning Curriculum
September 5, 2008 –
A curriculum for use by high school- and college-age students is the latest web release from the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers. Meant to provide an introduction to Linus Pauling's scientific research, peace activism and family life, the Student Learning Curriculum is a valuable resource for teachers and students of science and history alike. The inclusion of numerous illustrations, hyperlinks
to digitized primary sources and references for further study make this a helpful tool both for remote users as well as those
students able to visit the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections reading room.
The curriculum walks its users through the high points of Pauling's life and career through a chronological interface that
is divided into three broad sections: Early Years: Education, Teaching and the Chemical Bond; Middle Years: War Work, Peace Work and Protein Structure; and Later Years: Molecular Disease and Orthomolecular Medicine.
A bibliography of topical readings and a collection of links to numerous Pauling-related websites likewise provide a rich source of content for students interested in the history of twentieth century science.
An introduction to archival research is also built into the Student Learning Curriculum -- a perfect resource for aspiring young scholars in need of exposure
to the unique aspects of doing work in primary source repositories.
The Pauling Student Learning Curriculum is available at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/curriculum/page1.html
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Bernard Malamud Resources Updated: New Videos, Essay and Illustrations
August 15, 2008 –
Transcribed video of an hour-long book reading by acclaimed author Janna Malamud Smith is the centerpiece of a major update to the collection of Bernard Malamud resources now available on the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections website. An illustrated biographical essay and a detailed finding aid to the Malamud Papers are also included in this release.
Malamud Smith, one of Bernard and Ann DeChiara Malamud's two children, is the author of My Father is a Book, a much-lauded memoir of her famous father. In November 2007 Malamud Smith visited OSU and read from both her memoir as well as a Threepenny Review essay that predated the book. The readings reflect movingly upon the qualities that defined Bernard Malamud, both as an internationally-acclaimed
writer of fiction as well as a father and husband raising a young family in 1950s Corvallis – a location that often seemed
many worlds away from the East Coast bustle that he had always known.
Malamud Smith's reading, and the Q & A session that followed, were delivered as part of the OSU Visiting Writers Series, sponsored
by the OSU English Department, The Valley Library, the Office of the Provost, and Friends of the Benton-Corvallis County Library.
The transcribed video of her talk is the latest addition to the Special Events content being released on the Special Collections website.
Also included in this release is an enhanced version of Chester Garrison's illuminating essay, "Bern Malamud: An Instinctive Friendship." Garrison, a former Oregon State College English professor and close colleague of Malamud's, writes with wit and poignancy
of the multi-decade friendship that he shared with the gifted novelist – a relationship that spanned time zones and even continents.
The enhancements made to this version of Garrison's essay include a number of new illustrations, most notably a striking 1961
Malamud portrait recently donated to the Bernard Malamud Papers by professional photographer Seymour Linden.
Since 1986 the OSU Libraries Special Collections has served as home to a major collection of materials related to the life
and work of Bernard Malamud. The Malamud archive, which is described on the item level, includes over forty manuscript items,
six-hundred newspaper clippings and 179 first edition and foreign language books authored by Malamud. The catalogue of this
important collection is available at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/malamud/index.html
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) taught at Oregon State College (now Oregon State University) from 1949-1961. A prolific author,
he received numerous honors including a Pulitzer Prize (The Fixer, 1966) and two National Book Awards (The Magic Barrel, 1959; The Fixer, 1966) for his work.
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New Videos Featuring Noam Chomsky
July 18, 2008 –
Transcribed video of a two-hour lecture and Q & A session by Dr. Noam Chomsky is now available on the Special Events section of the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections website. Titled "Prospects for World Order" and delivered
on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, the talk provides compelling analysis of international
relations from the left-radical perspective.
This latest release from the OSU Libraries Special Collections video digitization program is available at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/events/1995chomsky/index.html
The Chomsky presentation, dated October 24, 1995, was sponsored by the Oregon State University College of Liberal Arts as
part of the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Lectureship for World Peace.
Dr. Chomsky, an internationally-known linguist and social critic, drew upon a wide diversity of historical and journalistic
sources in detailing his thoughts on the often-tumultuous interaction of world powers, including the United Nations, throughout
the course of the twentieth century. Following his lecture, which lasted for more than an hour, Chomsky engaged in a fifty-minute
question and answer dialogue with the capacity crowd at OSU’s LaSells Stewart Center.
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Video and Transcription of Roderick MacKinnon Lecture Now Available
June 3, 2008 –
Fully-transcribed video of Dr. Roderick MacKinnon's 2008 Linus Pauling Legacy Award Lecture is now available on the Special Collections webpage. Titled "Ion Channel Chemistry: The Electrical System of Life," Dr.
MacKinnon's talk provided a fascinating glimpse into the history of scientific inquiry into the human electrical system.
The presentation also introduced recent developments in the study of the molecular principles of selectivity and gating in
potassium channels -- a field of research that many feel will shed new light on potential cures for a wide range of neuromuscular
diseases.
This latest addition to the growing cache of video being released on the department's Special Events page is found at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/events/2008legacyaward/index.html
Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Dr. MacKinnon is the fifth recipient of the Linus Pauling Legacy Award, presented
by the Oregon State University Libraries. The Legacy Award is granted once every two years for outstanding achievement in
a field of study once of interest to Dr. Linus Pauling. Past recipients of the award include Daisaku Ikeda, founder of Soka
Gakkai International; Nobel laureate physicist Sir Joseph Rotblat; Harvard University biologist Matthew Meselson; and esteemed
chemist John D. Roberts.
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Now Available: Transcribed Video of Presentations by Francis Crick, Noted Historians and Friends of Linus Pauling.
May 13, 2008 –
Almost nine hours of transcribed video featuring presentations by a number of famed scientists and historians is the latest
addition to the Special Events website presented by the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections. Of particular note is a lecture by 1962 Nobel
laureate Dr. Francis Crick titled "The Impact of Linus Pauling on Molecular Biology." Video of a talk by an additional Nobel Prize winner, Dr. William N. Lipscomb (Chemistry, 1976) is a further highlight of this release.
All of the new video is available at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/events/1995paulingconference/index.html
The presentations, which date to February and March 1995, were initially delivered and recorded on the Oregon State University
campus as part of a major conference celebrating the life and work of Dr. Linus Pauling (1901-1994). Titled "A Discourse on the Art of Biography," the aim of the symposium was to convene three groups of speakers: scholars and journalists who had been writing about Linus
Pauling as a biographical subject; friends and colleagues who knew Pauling personally; historians and archivists who had studied
scientists as the subject of contemporary scientific biography.
Participants included Pauling’s youngest son Crellin, as well as a collection of Pauling’s former graduate students - including renowned molecular biologist Dr. Matthew Meselson and OSU Professors Emeritus Dr. Ken Hedberg and Dr. David Shoemaker - each of whom shared a number of often-humorous stories mined from their long associations with the famed scientist.
Three Pauling biographers likewise discussed their experiences writing on and interacting with their subject in a fascinating
and information-packed session titled "The Biographer’s Picture of Linus Pauling." A number of major historians, including Sarton Medal winners Frederic Lawrence Holmes and John L. Heilbron, broadened the discussion to the larger issues facing all writers of biography in general, and writers of science biography
in particular.
Annotated transcripts of each presentation are included along with the full video of the nineteen talks that comprised this historic gathering.
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Dr. Roderick MacKinnon, Nobel laureate, to Receive Pauling Legacy Award and Speak in Portland, May 5, 2008.
March 27, 2008 –
Dr. Roderick MacKinnon, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will speak in Portland on Monday, May 5th. The lecture, entitled “Ion Channel Chemistry: The Electrical System of Life,”
will be held at the Portland Hilton & Executive Tower at 8:00 PM. The event is free and open to the public. Seats may be reserved
ahead of time.
Dr. MacKinnon is visiting Oregon to receive the Linus Pauling Legacy Award, presented by the Oregon State University Libraries.
This award is granted once every two years to an outstanding individual in an area of study that Linus Pauling researched.
Past recipients of the award include Daisaku Ikeda, founder of Soka Gakkai International; Nobel laureate physicist Sir Joseph
Rotblat; Harvard University biologist Matthew Meselson; and esteemed chemist John D. Roberts.
A biophysicist and self-taught X-ray crystallographer, Dr. MacKinnon of Rockefeller University won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
for his work in ion channel imaging. His research focuses on the physical and chemical processes that produce electricity
in cells, and the passage of inorganic ions (such as potassium and chloride) across cell membranes. In 1998, MacKinnon became
the first scientist ever to capture a three-dimensional image of a potassium ion channel, thus solving the mystery of its
structure. His achievements have advanced the fields of both biology and medicine.
Dr. MacKinnon received his B.A. in biochemistry from Brandeis University and his M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine.
He completed medical residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston before returning to Brandeis for postdoctoral studies. He
joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 1989 and in 1996 moved to Rockefeller University as a professor and head of
the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics.
In addition to the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dr. MacKinnon is the recipient of numerous scientific awards, including
the 2003 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, the 2001 Gairdner Foundation International Award, the 2001 Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize,
the 2000 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research and the 1999 Albert Lasker Basic Medical
Research Award.
For more information, see our Special Events section at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/events/2008legacyaward/index.html
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A New Blog Devoted to the Life and Work of Linus and Ava Helen Pauling
March 13, 2008 –
The Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections is pleased to announce the launch of its latest online venture,
the PaulingBlog, available at http://paulingblog.wordpress.com.
The primary aim of the PaulingBlog is to present the stories of Linus and Ava Helen Pauling's fascinating lives in a format
that is accessible to a wide range of audiences. Drawing upon the seven major web portals developed by the OSU Special Collections
since 2001, the PaulingBlog will highlight stories of interest that might otherwise go unnoticed by many users. The PaulingBlog
will also be used to share news from within the OSU Libraries Special Collections -- be it upcoming events, new projects soon
to be released or extra insight into projects already completed.
The PaulingBlog features full RSS compatibility and welcomes user comments.
In tandem with the development of the PaulingBlog, a new Flickr photo-sharing site has also been created to provide a visual glimpse of the OSU Libraries Special Collections and its holdings. A direct link
to these images is as follows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24628174@N04.
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Expanded "Nature of the Chemical Bond" Website Launched in Celebration of Pauling Birthday
February 28, 2008 - A revised and dramatically expanded version of the website "Linus Pauling and the Nature of the Chemical Bond: A Documentary History" is being released by the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections in celebration of the 107th anniversary of
Linus Pauling's birth.Originally launched in December 2004, "Linus Pauling and the Nature of the Chemical Bond" examines the groundbreaking structural
chemistry research conducted by Pauling from 1926-1939. By applying the new physics discipline of quantum mechanics to the study of structural chemistry, Pauling revolutionized the science world’s understanding of how atoms join together
to form molecules. In 1954 the Nobel Foundation recognized the importance of these breakthroughs by awarding Pauling the
Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Today, Pauling’s work remains the foundation of contemporary structural chemistry, and his 1939 book The Nature of the Chemical Bond stands among the most frequently-cited scientific publications of the twentieth century.The heart of "Linus Pauling and the Nature of the Chemical Bond" is a forty-nine chapter narrative, written by Pauling biographer Tom Hager, which details Pauling’s many vital contributions to the study of atoms and molecules.
Amplifying the narrative are over 2,500 pages of digitized letters and manuscripts, nearly 100 photographs and drawings, and more than four hours of audio and video materials. In addition, the entirety of Pauling’s personal and professional activities for the years 1930-1939, and for
his Nobel chemistry year of 1954, are detailed in calendar form through the unique and growing "Linus Pauling Day-By-Day" project.New additions to and highlights of the expanded "Linus Pauling and the Nature of the Chemical Bond" website include:Fully-transcribed video of three complete lectures titled "Valence and Molecular Structure," delivered by Pauling for the National Science Foundation in 1957; annotated, pre-publication proof sheets of the 1927 paper in which Nobel laureate physicist Werner Heisenberg first proposed his famous "uncertainty principle"; and twelve stunning pastel drawings of chemical structures created by the renowned artist and illustrator Roger Hayward.Also included are four humorous audio clips of a stage production titled "The Road to Stockholm: The Appalling Life of Dr. Linus Pauling," presented by Pauling’s scientific colleagues at the California Institute of Technology just prior to his receipt of the Nobel
chemistry prize; over nine-hundred pages of lecture notes used by Pauling to instruct his students and his peers on emerging topics in quantum mechanics and structural chemistry;
and correspondence with many of the great scientists of the early twentieth century, including Sir William Lawrence Bragg, A.A. Noyes, John C. Slater and Arnold Sommerfeld.The website is available at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/bond/index.html
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OSU Libraries Special Collections Seeks Applicants for Resident Scholar Program
January 24, 2008 - Research grants are being made available to scholars interested in conducting work in the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers at OSU Libraries Special Collections. Stipends of $2,500 per month renewable for up to three months (for a total maximum
grant award of $7,500) will be made available to researchers in the history of science whose proposals detail a compelling
potential use of the materials held in the vast Pauling archive. Grant monies can be used for any purpose.Researchers will be expected to conduct their scholarly activities while in residence at the OSU Libraries Special Collections.
Historians, librarians, doctoral or post-doctoral students and independent scholars are welcome to apply. The deadline for
applying for Resident Scholar Program support is April 10, 2008.Detailed information outlining the qualifications necessary for application, the selection process and the conditions under
which awards will be made is available at the following PDF: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/residentscholar.pdfThe Resident Scholar Program is generously supported by the Peter and Judith Freeman Fund.
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Video and transcriptions now available from “The Scientist as Educator and Public Citizen: Linus Pauling and His Era” Conference,
Oct. 29-30, 2007
January 16, 2008 - More than nine hours of fully-transcribed video from a recent major conference on Linus Pauling are now available via the
Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections website.In late October 2007, OSU served as host to a two-day public conference titled "The Scientist as Educator and Public Citizen:
Linus Pauling and His Era." Featuring presentations by fifteen major scholars from across the United States and Europe --
including 1986 Nobel chemistry laureate Dr. Dudley Herschbach -- the conference focused upon Linus Pauling's revolutionary
impact on two decidedly different fields: textbook writing and public advocacy for science and peace.The filmed proceedings of this conference have since been completely transcribed, and freely-accessible video of each presentation
is now available at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/events/2007paulingconference/index.html
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New Website Launched: "Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: A Documentary History"
November 29, 2007 - Linus and Ava Helen Pauling’s legacy of peace activism is detailed in a major new website released today by the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections. Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement, the fourth in a series of documentary history websites created by the OSU Libraries Special Collections, utilizes over five-hundred
digitized archival documents and nearly ninety-minutes of audio and video footage to illustrate the story of the Paulings’ life-long peace crusade.The recipient of the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize, Linus Pauling (1901-1994) will forever be known as a courageous champion of peace
and civil liberties. Alarmed by the use of atomic weapons at the end of World War II, Pauling, and his wife Ava Helen, spent
countless hours over the next five decades raising their voices in protest against the dangers of radioactive fallout, weapons
proliferation and the cultural effects of Cold War hysteria. Their efforts earned the Paulings both acclaim and enmity, though
not always in equal measure. To some, the legacy of the Paulings’ peace work remains controversial, but few will deny the
duo’s wide-ranging historical importance.The centerpiece of Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement is a richly-illustrated, fifty-three chapter narrative, written by Pauling biographer Thomas Hager. Over five-hundred archival documents and more than fifty audio and video clips
provide deeper context for the events and ideas discussed in this narrative. In addition, the complete details of the Paulings’
personal and professional activities for the years 1950 and 1951 are exhaustively chronicled in the unique Linus Pauling Day-by-Day calendar.Highlights of Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement include:Selections from the famous United Nations Bomb Test Petition, circulated by the Paulings from 1957-1958, and bearing the signatures of over 9,000 scientists from fifty countries, demanding
an end to above-ground nuclear weapons testing; A travel diary kept by Ava Helen which recounts the sites and sounds of life at Albert Schweitzer’s medical compound in central Africa;
Correspondence between the Paulings and a host of notable figures including leaders of nations, (U.S. Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and
Johnson; Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev; North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh) social activists, (Albert Schweitzer, Martin
Luther King, Jr.) and fellow scientists engaged in the peace movement (J.D. Bernal, Dorothy Hodgkin); and over seventy photographs of the Paulings and their activist colleagues.Visit the site at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/peace/index.html
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“The Scientist as Educator and Public Citizen: Linus Pauling and His Era” 2-day Public Conference, Oct. 29-30, 2007
August 30, 2007 - Fourteen prominent scientists, historians, and educators from the United States and abroad will be speaking at the OSU campus
LaSells Stewart Center, October 29-30, at a two-day conference on “The Scientist as Educator and Public Citizen: Linus Pauling and His Era.” Among
the speakers are 1986 Chemistry Nobel laureate Dudley Herschbach, climate research scientist Warren Washington, science documentary
writer and producer Steve Lyons, award-winning science educator Bassam Shakhashiri, former British Museum director Robert
Anderson, and OSU scientists ecologist Jane Lubchenco and physicist Kenneth Krane.As explained by conference co-organizers Horning Professor of the Humanities Mary Jo Nye and Head of OSU Special Collections
Clifford Mead, the conference marks the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the publication of Linus Pauling’s General Chemistry textbook and the 50th anniversary of Pauling’s first public appeal for a ban on nuclear-weapons testing. Linus Pauling, a
1922 graduate of Oregon Agricultural College, received the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize. The
conference is sponsored by the Oregon State University Horning Endowment in the Humanities, in collaboration with the History
Department, and by the Valley Library’s Special Collections, which houses the papers of Ava Helen and Linus Pauling.The Conference Schedule, Abstracts and a video clip of Linus Pauling lecturing in 1957 can be found at the conference website:
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/events/2007paulingconference/index.htmlThis conference is free and open to the public.
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Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture on World Peace, Dr. Grace Lee Boggs, November 1, 2007
August 29, 2007 - The Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture on World Peace Committee is delighted to announce that our Distinguished
Lecturer for 2007 will be Dr. Grace Lee Boggs. Dr. Boggs is a Chinese-American, whose husband of forty years was James “Jimmy”
Boggs, the noted Afro-American labor and civil rights advocate. As activists, singly and together, they played a prominent
role in the Labor, Feminist, and Civil Rights Movements for the greater part of the past century. As intellectuals, again
both individually and in concert, they authored countless articles and essays as well as such important books as Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century (1974), Women and the Movement to Build a New America (1977), and Conversations in Maine: Exploring Our Nation’s Future (1978).It is entirely possible, however, that you might never have heard of Dr. Boggs (unless you are from Michigan), for she has
personified Rene Dubos’s useful dictum: “Think globally, act locally.”Dr. Boggs, who received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1935 and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr in 1940, celebrated
her 92nd birthday this June. In her interview on Bill Moyers Journal that month, she was a paragon of acuity, wisdom, tranquility,
and loving kindness. As a tireless champion of equal rights for women, racial minorities, and workers, she has repeatedly
demonstrated the depth of her commitment to justice, nonviolence, and human rights. Understandably, she declines most invitations
to speak that involve traveling, but her friendship with Linus Pauling compelled her to accept ours.Grace Lee Boggs’s lecture is November 1, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. at the LaSells Stewart Center, and is free an open to the public. See more Event Information. This marks the 25th year of the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture on World Peace.
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Pauling Catalogue Reviewed
August 28, 2007 - A review of The Pauling Catalogue has been published in The Chemical Educator (Vol. 12, No. 4; online publication date of August 4, 2007). The article, written by George B. Kauffman, professor of chemistry
at California State University, Fresno, is the first of several reviews of the six-volume reference work soon to appear in
print.In evaluating the nearly 1,800 pages of The Pauling Catalogue, Kauffman concludes that the work:"...constitutes an invaluable resource for historians of science and chemistry, scholars of science policy, and advocates
of the peace movement, along with practicing chemists and scientists interested in the history of their fields, especially
during the 20th century. It belongs in every academic library."The full text of Kauffman's article is available here: http://chemeducator.org/bibs/0012004/12070296mr.htmThe Pauling Catalogue is available for purchase at http://paulingcatalogue.org
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Ann Malamud (1917-2007)
March 27, 2007 - Ann DeChiara Malamud, for forty-one years the wife of novelist Bernard Malamud, died on March 20, 2007 at the age of 89.In 1949, after four years of marriage, Bernard and Ann Malamud, along with their young son Paul, moved from their native New
York City to Corvallis, Oregon, where Bernard would join the English faculty at Oregon State College. The family remained
in Oregon for twelve years, a time during which Bernard would compose much of his best-known work including the The Magic Barrel, for which he won the National Book Award in 1959. Likewise, it was in Corvallis where Ann Malamud gave birth to the family’s
second child, a daughter named Janna, born in 1951.In her memoir My Father is a Book, published in 2006, Janna Malamud Smith recounted memories of her mother’s experiences in the Pacific Northwest:
“Much about Corvallis life suited my mother. Her friends were always proposing outings or dropping by or phoning for long
talks. She’d drive us to the town swimming pool or to friends’ houses; Paul to Cub Scouts, art classes, and cello lessons;
me to Brownies and ballet. She liked reading and hunting for old furniture to refinish. She baked often – bread, cookies,
cakes. She sometimes volunteered for the local Democratic Party and for the League of Women Voters. One winter she took
a painting class and completed a self-portrait in oils. She read aloud a lot when we were little, and her multivoiced rendition
of Winnie-the-Pooh delighted her and us; I giggled over Piglet’s and Roo’s squeaky concerns. After we bought a television in 1959, she, my
brother, and I would watch The Phil Silvers Show (‘Sergeant Bilko’) and laugh ourselves silly. If she was restless for the East, it didn’t show.”
In 1997 the OSU Libraries Special Collections began the process of building the Bernard Malamud Papers at Oregon State University.
One of three such collections nationwide, the OSU Malamud archive contains a substantial trove of correspondence, newspaper
clippings, manuscript materials and administrative records related to the Malamud family’s life, work and residence in Oregon.
Included among these holdings are a number of items written by Ann Malamud.Additional information on the Malamud collection is available at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/malamud/index.htmlA complete obituary of Ann Malamud can be found at http://gazettetimes.com/articles/2007/03/27/news/obituaries/6obi03_malamud.prt
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Happy Birthday Linus Pauling!
February 28, 2007 - February 28, 2007 marks the 106th anniversary of Dr. Linus Pauling’s birth. Pauling, who died in 1994, lived a long and remarkably
fruitful life that touched upon many of the twentieth century’s most significant themes.One-hundred years ago: In 1907 Linus Pauling, a shy but precocious six-year old, lived in the northeast Oregon farming hamlet of Condon. Pauling’s
father, Herman, had opened the little town’s only drugstore two years earlier, in the process relocating his wife and three
children from their residence in Portland.Seventy-five years ago: In 1932 Pauling was establishing himself as a scientist of international renown due to his path-breaking research on the
structure of molecules. Two papers written by Pauling in 1932 on the nature of the chemical bond would contribute to a body of work that culminated in Pauling’s receipt of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1954.Fifty years ago: On May 15, 1957 Pauling delivered a speech at Washington University on the health effects of radioactive fallout from nuclear
weapons tests. During the talk, Pauling declared that no human should be sacrificed to any nation’s program of perfecting
nuclear weapons. Pauling’s ideas were well-received, so much so that Linus and Ava Helen Pauling were encouraged to compose
a petition advocating against above-ground nuclear weapons tests. This petition was eventually signed by over nine-thousand
international scientists and would result in Pauling’s receipt of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Peace.Twenty-five years ago: By 1982 Pauling had become popularly known for his advocacy of the health benefits of vitamin C. At the age of 81, energetic
as ever, Pauling traveled widely – across the United States, Canada, Europe and even Venezuela – delivering a total of fifty
speeches, most of them on vitamin C.The completed six-volume Pauling Catalogue, which details all aspects of Pauling's remarkable life, is available for sale
at http://paulingcatalogue.org.
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Pauling Catalogue Available for Sale.
January 30, 2007 - The six-volume and nearly 1,800 page Pauling Catalogue is now available for sale. Purchase of this ground-breaking reference work may be made online through a secure credit card
transaction at http://paulingcatalogue.org or through the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections offices at 541-737-2075 or special.collections@oregonstate.eduThe product of nearly twenty years of work, The Pauling Catalogue describes in great detail the approximately 500,000 items that comprise the OSU Libraries Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers. Richly illustrated with over 1,200 images, The Pauling Catalogue also includes six introductions written by noted historians of science and members of the Pauling family. A forty-five page
illustrated timeline provides ample background information on the extraordinary lives led by Linus Pauling and his wife of
nearly sixty years, Ava Helen. Likewise, an extensive reproduction of Linus Pauling’s 1917 personal diary affords a revealing
glimpse into the personality of a scientific genius as he begins his higher education.The Pauling Catalogue retails for $125.00 plus $15.00 shipping and handling. Sample pages, ordering information and additional details are available
at http://paulingcatalogue.org
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RSS News Feeds now available on our website.
December 22, 2006 - Special Collections now offers "Really Simple Syndication" (RSS) news feeds, in both RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 format. RSS feeds
are free content that contain headlines, summaries, or full articles announcing our newest projects. When you subscribe to
a news feed using a feed reader program, you get updates every time a new story or article is posted. It's an easy way to
stay current with your favorite sites without having to check them all the time.You can subscribe to RSS news feeds using a variety of programs, including modern web browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, etc.), a web-based reader (Bloglines, Google Reader, etc.), or a software program (FeedDemon, Awasu, etc.).For more information on available feed readers, visit Wikipedia's Web Feed article.
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17 video clips posted to Pauling Sickle Cell Anemia site.
October 2006 - 17 video clips have been added to our website It's in the Blood, A Documentary History of Linus Pauling, Hemoglobin and Sickle Cell Anemia. Full transcripts are available.Take a look at the videos: Video Clips, Sickle Cell Anemia site.
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Linus Pauling Day-By-Day pages for 1940-1949 now available.
August 2006 - We've completed the initial work on the Linus Pauling Day-By-Day site for the years 1940-1949. Now online is 1930-1949, and
1952-1954. Each week through the 1940s has an image of a letter, photograph or document, all of which can be viewed at a larger
size.Check out the new years available: Linus Pauling Day-By-Day, 1940s.
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Professor John D. Roberts to receive 2006 Pauling Legacy Award on May 4, 2006.
April 2006 - Professor John D. Roberts, Chemistry Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, has been selected as the
recipient of the 2006 Pauling Legacy Award, to be conferred on May 4, 2006 at Oregon State University.Professor Roberts was selected for this award because he is the person most responsible for the idea of “reaction mechanism”
in American chemistry–that is, that chemists should understand how a reaction occurs, as well as what its products are and
how to use it in synthesis. The concept of “mechanism” has, of course, provided to be an immensely durable one, and one that
has given U.S. chemistry a compelling advantage over much of the rest of the world for 50 years.In addition, Roberts’ work in NMR spectroscopy has been especially influential. He was a real pioneer with enormous influence
in the broad field of NMR spectroscopy for organic chemistry. He was the first person to use fast-exchange methods for complex
organic systems. He was the first to use 13C NMR, and the first to use 15N spectroscopy, and especially 15N spectroscopy for biological systems. His studies of protease structure and action using 15N NMR spectroscopy remains a great classic of biochemical research, an accomplishment that clearly pointed the way to the
enormously more sophisticated methods now being employed as mainstays of the field using high-field spectrometers. His overall
program in NMR spectroscopy–and especially heavy-atom NMR spectroscopy–was years ahead of its time in ambition and sophistication.The title of Professor Roberts’ Pauling Legacy Award Lecture is “Useful Knowledge about Magnetic Resonance Imaging.”The lecture will be presented in the Austin Auditorium at the LaSells Stewart Center at 4:30pm and is free and open to the public.
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Major Advance on DNA Structure Published.
May 2005 - Oregon State University researchers have made significant new advances in determining the structure of all possible DNA sequences
-- a discovery that in one sense takes up where Watson and Crick left off, after outlining in 1953 the double-helical structure
of this biological blueprint for life. One of the fundamental problems in biochemistry is to predict the structure of a molecule
from its sequence -- this has been referred to as the "Holy Grail" of protein chemistry. Today, the OSU scientists announced
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have used X-ray crystallography to determine the three-dimensional
structures of nearly all the possible sequences of a macromolecule, and thereby create a map of DNA structure. View the Website.
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Diet and Optimum Health Conference May 18-21, 2005.
April 2005 - The Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University will hold its third international conference on "Diet and Optimum Health"
on May 18-21, 2005, at the Portland Hilton & Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon. The Conference is co-sponsored by the Oxygen
Club of California, Oregon Health & Science University and Oregon Public Broadcasting. View the Website.
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Pauling, Sickle-Cell Anemia and Molecular Disease website launched.
March 2005 - Our newest website, It's in the Blood! A Documentary History of Linus Pauling, Hemoglobin and Sickle Cell Anemia, launched
in March to commemorate the anniversary of Pauling's birthday on February 28. Linus Pauling began his professional life studying
atoms, and ended it best known for his thoughts on medicine. Linking these two fields was a central body of work on the nature
of human blood. During the most productive thirty years of his life, between the mid-1930s and mid-1960s, Pauling's research
in this area not only advanced our understanding of how the blood works at the molecular level, but branched and blossomed
into vital discoveries about immunology, sickle-cell anemia, genetics, evolution, and human health. Incorporating more than
300 scanned documents, photographs, audio clips and video excerpts, this web resource includes images of a number of very
important and extremely rare items, most of which are held within The Valley Library's Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers,
many of which have not been previously displayed. The site is designed to serve as both an introduction to an important body
of work and as a reference tool for students, teachers, physicians, scientists, and members of the general public interested
in the history of modern medicine. View the Website.
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Linus Pauling and the Chemical Bond website launched.
December 2004 - Linus Pauling and the Nature of the Chemical Bond: A Documentary History was launched in commemoration of December 10, the
day of Linus Pauling's receipt of the 1954 Nobel prize for chemistry. This new website contains three large sub-sections:
a forty-nine page Narrative that recounts the early years of chemical bond investigation and Pauling's research; access to
hundreds of primary source materials, including letters, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual materials and published papers;
and a comprehensive account of all of Pauling's personal and professional endeavors in the years 1930 through 1939, when he
was writing these seminal papers, and 1954, when he was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry for these efforts. View the Website.
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Professor Matthew Meselson coming to OSU in May.
April 2004 - Professor Matthew Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard University, will be visiting OSU
on May 4th and 5th to deliver the Pauling Peace Lecture, participate in a roundtable discussion and to receive the Pauling
Legacy Award.The 2004 Pauling Peace Lecture, titled, "Averting the Hostile Exploitation of Biology," will be given on May 4th at 7:00 PM
in the LaSells Stewart Center. This event is open to the public. Meselson has crusaded against the dangers of chemical and
biological weapons for over forty years. An influential voice in U.S. weapons policy, Meselson has likewise conducted pioneering
experiments measuring the after-effects of Soviet chemical and biological weapons tests conducted in secret throughout the
1970's.As part of his time here in Corvallis, Dr. Meselson has agreed to take part in a round-table discussion that will feature
Meselson and Professor Frank Stahl of the University of Oregon reflecting upon their pioneering DNA replication experiment,
conducted in 1957. Meselson and Stahl’s breakthrough has since been dubbed the "most beautiful experiment in biology," and
was revisited by Frederic Lawrence Holmes in his 2001 book Meselson, Stahl and the Replication of DNA. Horning Professor Dr. Mary Jo Nye, of the OSU History of Science department, and two OSU Biochemistry/Biophysics Distinguished
Professors Emeritus, Dr. Chris Mathews and Dr. Ken VanHolde, will be members of the round-table, and will help moderate the
discussion. The round-table is scheduled to take place on May 5th at 2:00 PM in the LaSells Stewart Center, Austin Auditorium.
The event is open to the public.The evening of May 5th, Meselson will be the third recipient of the Pauling Legacy Award. This award was established in the
year 2001 in honor of Linus Pauling (1991-1994) and dedicated to recognition of outstanding achievement by an individual or
organization in a subject of interest to Linus Pauling. The 2001 award was presented to Daisaku Ikeda, President of Soka Gakkai
International; the 2003 award was presented to Nobel Laureate Sir Joseph Rotblat, Professor Emeritus of the University of
London.Please contact Special Collections at 541-737-2075 or special.collections@oregonstate.edu if you have questions or if you need further information.
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New Pauling Honors, Medals and Awards website launched.
February 2004 - Linus Pauling's Honors, Medals and Awards was launched in commemoration of February 28, Linus Pauling's birthday. This new
website features several hundred digital images of the many different medals, awards, honorary doctorates and other honors
that Pauling received during his lifetime. View the Website.
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Pauline Pauling Emmett dies at 101.
October 2003 - Pauline Pauling Emmett, sister to Linus Pauling and wife to Paul Emmett, passed away October 19th.
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New site design goes live.
September 2003 - Our website has been completely redesigned. Frames have been removed, more images have been included, new collections have
been added and more content is online and up-to-date than ever before. In addition, Google's Site Search has been integrated
as our search engine to provide you with some of the best search technology available, all while being optimized for our site.
If you have any questions or problems with the new design please let us know.
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New collections acquired and catalogued.
July 2003 - Three new collections have recently been catalogued. These include the Ewan Cameron Papers, the Fritz Marti Papers, and the Canine Research Collection.
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Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA: A Documentary History
February 2003 - This site was launched in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA. Highlights of the site include the
famous x-ray photograph by Rosalind Franklin, multimedia content and original papers and documents. Read an Introduction to the site's three main sections, or start browsing away. http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/dna/index.html
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Pauling Research Notebooks posted online.
February 2002 - As with many scientists, Linus Pauling utilized bound notebooks to keep track of the details of his research as it unfolded.
A testament to the remarkable length and diversity of Dr. Pauling's career, the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers holdings
include forty-six research notebooks spanning the years of 1922 to 1994 and covering any number of the scientific fields in
which Dr. Pauling involved himself. In this regard, the notebooks contain many of Pauling's laboratory calculations and experimental
data, as well as scientific conclusions, ideas for further research and numerous autobiographical musings. http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/rnb/index.html
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Pauling Centenary Exhibit posted online.
June 2001 - Linus Pauling: A Centenary Exhibit can now be viewed on the Web at http://pauling.library.oregonstate.edu/exhibit/index.htm. The exhibit was prepared by the staff of Special Collections and University Archives units of the Oregon State University
Libraries. Materials are from the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers held by Special Collections and various photographic
collections in the University Archives. This exhibit was originally on display in the Memorial Union at Oregon State University
from January 22 to March 5, 2001.
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3 incunabula donated.
July 2001 - The Valley Library's Special Collections recently received a donation of three incunabula (books printed before 1501) from
Oregon State alumnus Mary Louise Gilfillan Simon. Simon, the daughter of former OSU dean, Francois Gilfillan, presented the
books to Cliff Mead, head of Special Collections, during Alumni Weekend on June 1, 2001. Of the three books donated, Lilium medicinae, by Bernard de Gordon, (ca.1260-ca.1318) is by far the scarcest item in the donation. This is the first French edition and
it had widespread circulation among European physicians due to the comprehensiveness of its subject matter, the orderly arrangement
of its topics, lucid style, and, above all, by its practical usefulness to its readers (medical books being the most practical
of books for the time period). It is one of only three known copies to exist in the United States, the other two being held
at Yale University's Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and the Philadelphia College of Physicians library. Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae (Venice, 1491) was written by one of the most popular and widely read thinkers of the medieval period. This book was considered
the second most popular text next to the Vulgate Bible during the middle ages. It was translated into Old English by King
Alfred, into Old French by Jean de Meun, into Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer and into Elizabethan English by Queen Elizabeth
I. Werner Rolevinck's Fasciculus temporum (Venice, Erhard Ratdolt, 1480) is a well-known illustrated book of the 15th century and one of the most read world chronicles
of its time. It is also the earliest chronological work to be printed. The demand for the book was so strong it appeared in
at least 33 editions and was translated into German, French and Dutch. In fact, the Fasciculus temporum could be called the world's first "best seller". The various editions were amended in the localities that they were printed
at to bring them up to date or to add items of local interest or history. This edition ends with an account of the siege of
the city of Rhodes by the Turks in 1480.
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