Linus Pauling: Scientist And Peacemaker [Hardcover ed.] 0870714899, 9780870714894

One of the most brilliant scientists and most controversial individuals of the twentieth century, Linus Pauling was the

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Linus Pauling: Scientist And Peacemaker [Hardcover ed.]
 0870714899, 9780870714894

Table of contents :
Preface
PART I. LINUS PAULING, THE MAN
The Roots of Genius 2
A Pauling Chronology 8
My Best Friend 21
Diary Excerpts 25
Interview with Dr. 31
Summer Employment 56
Children of the Dawn 59
The Teacher 63
The Incident on the Cliff 71

PART II. THE SCIENCE
The Scientific Contributions of Linus Pauling 78
Early Years of Physical Chemistry at Caltech 98
The Original Manuscript for The Nature of the Chemical Bond 109
Modern Structural Chemistry: Nobel Lecture 1954 111
Pauling and Beadle 119
Sickle-Cell Anemia
How I Developed an Interest in the Question of the Nature of Life 134
The Discovery of the Alpha Helix 141
The Triple Helix 150
The Genesis of the Molecular Clock 169
Orthomolecular Medicine Defined 177
“There Will Always Be Something Interesting” 184

PART III. THE PEACE WORK
An Episode That Changed My Life 192
The Ultimate Decision 195
Meet the Press 201
Science and Peace, Nobel Lecture 1963 208
Man—An Irrational Animal 223
A World in Which Every Human Being Can Live a Good Life ... 227

PART IV. FACETS 229
Pauling Bibliography 258

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