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Oppenheimer Minerals Update
We’ve received several comments on the unidentified minerals referenced in the previous post. Here are those comments, along with revised images of the mystery specimens as color-corrected in P… more →
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Oppenheimer Minerals Update
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spcoll wrote 2 weeks ago: We’ve received several comments on the unidentified minerals referenced in the previous post. … more →
The Oppenheimer Minerals
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spcoll wrote 2 weeks ago: For a short period of time in the late 1920s, Linus Pauling and J. Robert Oppenheimer were colleague … more →
Ewan Cameron
spcoll wrote 2 weeks ago: Ewan Cameron, 1976 “Today I propose to tell you of my personal involvement in this still highl … more →
David and Clara Shoemaker
spcoll wrote 3 weeks ago: David and Clara Shoemaker working in an x-ray laboratory at Oregon State University, 1983. Husband a … more →
Remembering Abram Hoffer
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spcoll wrote 2 months ago: Abram Hoffer and Linus Pauling, November 1992. “As a physician, I am ambivalent about my assoc … more →
"There is no substitute for doing things with your own hands."
spcoll wrote 3 months ago: Self-portrait by Roger Hayward, ca. 1930s. In the archival world, scrapbooks are typically regarded … more →
Pauling's Best Friend: Lloyd Jeffress
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spcoll wrote 5 months ago: Photo of Lloyd Jeffress, extracted from Physics Today, December 1977. As a child, Linus Pauling had … more →
Dr. Paul Emmett, 1900-1985
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spcoll wrote 6 months ago: Dr. Paul Emmett, 1970s The catalysis chemist Dr. Paul Emmett is one of many distinguished scientists … more →
Resident Scholar, Dr. Burt Davis
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spcoll wrote 6 months ago: Dr. Burt Davis lecturing on Paul Emmett in the OSU Libraries Special Collections reading room. Photo … more →
William P. Murphy: Condon's Other Nobel Prize Winner
spcoll wrote 8 months ago: William P. Murphy, 1930s. Image courtesy of the Nobel museum. Condon – as you are undoubtedly … more →
Peter Debye (1884-1966)
spcoll wrote 8 months ago: Portrait of Peter J.W. Debye. Image courtesy of the Michigan State University department of Chemistr … more →
Pauling's Contacts with Martin Luther King, Jr.
spcoll wrote 10 months ago: "An Appeal by Recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize." 1965. Linus Pauling is recognized as o … more →
Carleton Gajdusek, Doug Strain and Richard T. Jones
spcoll wrote 11 months ago: Before settling completely in to 2009, we would like to take a moment to note the 2008 passing of th … more →
Now Available: "Face Furniture," by Roger and Elizabeth Hayward
spcoll wrote 1 year ago: "Face Furniture," by Roger and Elizabeth Hayward. “The Haywards were not aiming to i … more →
Pauling and Chomsky
spcoll wrote 1 year ago: Noam Chomsky in the original Special Collections reading room, Kerr Library, 1995. The latest additi … more →
The Guggenheim Trip, Part III: Unexpected Colleagues
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spcoll wrote 1 year ago: Walter Heitler, Fritz London, and Ava Helen Pauling in Europe. 1926. “The paper of Heitler and … more →
Our Newest Addition: Pauling-Goudsmit Letters
spcoll wrote 1 year ago: Portrait of Samuel Goudsmit, 1937. “Goudsmit and I were never together, I think, during the pe … more →
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
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spcoll wrote 1 year ago: Portrait of Werner Heisenberg, 1926. “I learned mathematics from Born and physics from Bohr, a … more →
Roger Hayward and Linus Pauling
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spcoll wrote 1 year ago: [Part 4 of 4. Questions about Roger Hayward may be directed to the authors of this text -- Dr. J.R. … more →
