Linus Pauling
Subtitle: a man and his science
By: Anthony Serafini ; foreword by Isaac Asimov.
Publisher: ToExcel
Published: 2000
Place of publication: San Jose
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Pauling, Linus, -- 1901-1994.; Pauling, Linus, -- 1901-1994.; Chemists -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Early days; title: 2. Probing the structure of crystals; title: 3. From Caltech to Europe; title: 4. Making strides in quantum mechanics; title: 5. At home at Caltech; title: 6. Pauling vs. Dorothy Wrinch; title: 7. Molecular medicine; title: 8. War years; title: 9. Politics and the postwar years; title: 10. McCarthy era and the "race" for DNA; title: 11. On the way to his first Nobel Prize; title: 12. On the trail of a cure for mental illness; title: 13. Peace crusading in high gear; title: 14. Brush with death; title: 15. At war with Herman J. Muller; title: 16. Squaring off with William F. Buckley, Jr.; title: 17. On the way to San Diego and vitamin C; title: 18. Pauling vs. the medical establishment; title: 19. Break from Arthur Robinson; title: 20. In defense of vitamin C.