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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Linus Pauling; Linus Pauling |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Anthony Serafini |
| ISBN: | 0595001017 9780595001019 |
| OCLC Number: | 50777637 |
| Description: | xxii, 310 p., [20] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Early days -- 2. Probing the structure of crystals -- 3. From Caltech to Europe -- 4. Making strides in quantum mechanics -- 5. At home at Caltech -- 6. Pauling vs. Dorothy Wrinch -- 7. Molecular medicine -- 8. War years -- 9. Politics and the postwar years -- 10. McCarthy era and the "race" for DNA -- 11. On the way to his first Nobel Prize -- 12. On the trail of a cure for mental illness -- 13. Peace crusading in high gear -- 14. Brush with death -- 15. At war with Herman J. Muller -- 16. Squaring off with William F. Buckley, Jr.-- 17. On the way to San Diego and vitamin C -- 18. Pauling vs. the medical establishment -- 19. Break from Arthur Robinson -- 20. In defense of vitamin C. |
| Responsibility: | Anthony Serafini ; foreword by Isaac Asimov. |
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