One regret I have is not being able to meet Linus Pauling, the biochemist best known in nutrition circles for his views on vitamin C. In the last years of his life, he resided just down the road from ...

Linus Pauling was a Nobel Prize winner and considered by some to be the founding father of molecular biology. According to ...

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 Portland, Oregon ...

A longtime friend and colleague of Pauling's, Davidson recalls the days when he was a junior member of Caltech's faculty and teaching assistant to Pauling for a beginner-level chemistry course. "I ...

It’s the culmination of a huge journey—in 1931, chemist Linus Pauling wrote in the Journal of the American Chemical Society that he believed it was possible to have a pair of carbon atoms with ...

The idea originally came from Nobel prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling in the 1970s. Pauling reported that there was ‘strong evidence’ that vitamin C decreased the incidence of colds.

A protein molecule is composed of thousands of atoms. How are they arranged? Progress has been made toward answering the question for fibrous proteins such as hair, horn, fingernail and porcupine ...

This vital theoretical concept in chemistry, first introduced by American chemist Linus Pauling in 1932 as ‘the power of an atom in a molecule to attract electrons to itself’, has played a significant ...

Over his long career, Dr. Karplus had crossed paths with some of the most important scientists of the 20th century, including Linus Pauling and J. Robert Oppenheimer. Scientists can control the ...

Author of The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Recognized as the father of molecular biology. Discovered sickle cell anemia was a molecular disease, opening the way toward examining genetically acquired ...

It is now ~50 years since the discovery of the atomic structure of the α-helix by Linus Pauling. Like the other great helical structure in biology, the double helix of B-DNA, it was ultimately ...