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A Career at the Center: Linus Pauling and the Transformation of Chemical Science in the Twentieth Century (2016)

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Development of science; change in science 20th century Pauling, Linus Carl California Institute of Technology

In my talk today, I want to focus on Linus Pauling in order to analyze some of the principal transformations in chemical science during the twentieth century. Pauling lived throughout most of that century, from 1901 to 1994, and chemistry was the center of his life. His career was spent mostly at an American institution that was an outpost when Pauling first went there in 1922, but the California Institute of Technology became a major player in chemical science by the height of Pauling’s career at mid-twentieth century. Pauling moved from one cutting edge in chemistry to another, always on the lookout for something new, but never abandoning his earlier areas of research, whether X-ray crystallography, statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics, electron diffraction, thermodynamic studies of molecules, the chemistry of life and molecular biology, immunology, structural studies of metals and of intermetallic compounds, or studies of disease in relation to genetic abnormalities and diet.

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Authors & Contributors
Kay, Lily E.
Servos, John W.
Goodstein, Judith R.
Sheeley, Neil R.
Trevor W. Hambley
James Evans
Journals
Historical Records of Australian Science
Testi e Contesti: Quaderni di Scienze, Storia e Societa
Rivista di Storia della Scienza
Physics in Perspective
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Journal of Geophysical Research
Publishers
Simon & Schuster
Princeton University Press
Oxford University Press
Johns Hopkins University
University of Minnesota
Harvard University
Concepts
Physical chemistry
Physics
Obituaries
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Inorganic chemistry
Chemistry
People
Pauling, Linus Carl
Noyes, Arthur Amos
Coryell, Charles D.
Freeman, Hans Charles
Mellor, David Paver
Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Australia
California (U.S.)
Institutions
California Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Kellogg Radiation Laboratory
University of Sydney
Rockefeller Foundation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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