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We’re dedicating the entirety of this month to celebrating the release of the new book, Ava Helen Pauling: Partner, Activist, Visionary, the first biography of Ava Helen Pauling, now available from the OSU Press. In the coming weeks, readers can anticipate lengthy excerpts from this exciting new publication, but for today and next week we offer an exclusive interview with the book’s author, Dr. Mina Carson. Dr. Carson is an Associate Professor of History at Oregon State University and an alum of the Special Collections & Archives Research Center’s Resident Scholar Program. Transcribed video of her 2009 Resident Scholar presentation, “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Life of Ava Helen Pauling,” is available here.
Pauling Blog: What was the genesis of this book?
Mina Carson: Really and truly the genesis was that I ran into a graduate student, Linda Richards, in Milam Hall in the upstairs hall and she said “did you know that nobody has worked on the Ava Helen Pauling papers and that the [OSU] Press may be interested in p
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Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling (28 Februar 1901 – 19 August 1994)[4] wis an American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, an eddicator. He published mair nor 1,200 papers an beuks, o that aboot 850 dealt wi scienteefic topics.[5]New Scientist cried him one o the 20 greatest scientists o aw time,[6] an as o 2000, he wis rated the 16t maist important scientist in history.[7]
Pauling wis ane o the foonders o the fields o quantum chemistry an molecular biology.[8] His contreibutions tae the theory o the chemical bond include the concept o orbital hybridisation an the first accurate scale o electronegativities o the elements. Pauling an aw wirkit on the structurs o biological molecules, an shawed the importance o the alpha helix an beta sheet in protein seicontar structur. Pauling's approach combined methods an results frae X-ray creestallografie, molecular model biggin an quantum chemistry. His diskiveries inspired the wark o James Watson, Francis Crick, an Rosalind Franklin on the structur o DNA, that in turn made it
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John Byrne: I'm John Byrne, I served as President of Oregon State University during a very propitious period for the university; and I'm not referring to Ballot Measure 5 - for those of you who were here at the time - but rather the fact that we were successful in attracting the attention of two Linus Paulings. It was my privilege, really, to get to know both of them to some extent - certainly Linus Pauling, who we are celebrating here today. But for me, a very special personal pleasure to know the Linus Pauling who is going to speak to us in a few minutes.
I'm a little bit disturbed by the information I was provided about Linus Pauling, Jr., as people frequently refer to him. It didn't say very much: it said that he was the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, and he has been that for some time - most of you know that - that for thirty years he has been a practicing psychiatrist; that he has a medical degree from the Harvard Medical School; that he served on a number of boards such as the Hawaii Mental Association - he happens to
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