Aug 19, 1994 · The self-taught chemist. Linus Pauling's lifelong fascination with chemistry was ignited during childhood by a friend's chemistry set. He was born on February 28, 1901, in …

Linus Pauling (1901-1994) LINUS Pauling died on 19 August at his home in California at the age of 93. He was widely regarded as the greatest chemist of the twentieth century - such was the …

Linus Pauling was born poor; he struggled at menial jobs to support himself at high school and while studying for a degree in chemical engineering at the Oregon Agricul tural College. All the …

Linus Pauling's prediction of the α-helix, one of the greatest achievements in structural biology, was made by assuming (i) that the peptide bond is planar, (ii) that all amino acid residues are ...

Dec 22, 2010 · Linus Pauling's book on bonding brought quantum mechanics into practical chemistry, finds Philip Ball. When Pauling's book was first published, some textbooks were still …

Pauling and colleagues published their results in a paper entitled "Sickle cell anemia: a molecular disease", as it was the first demonstration of "a change produced in a protein molecule by an ...

Feb 1, 2001 · Linus Pauling, who was celebrated in Gautam R. Desiraju's Millennium Essay (Nature 408, 407; 2000), was born on 28 February 1901. As the hundredth anniversary of his …

Linus Pauling reviews his work on the molecular basis of biological srpecificity and remembers his erroneous conception of a three-chain helix structure for DNA in 1952.

The first edition of Prof. Pauling's work was published two years ago. Its well–merited popularity led to the exhaustion of the first edition, and a second has now been prepared.

An Introduction to Modern Structural Chemistry. By Prof. Linus Pauling. (The George Fisher Baker Non-resident Lectureship in Chemistry at Cornell University.) Pp. xiv+ 429.