Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker February 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Linus Pauling's birth. To commemorate the occasion and celebrate this important figure in world history, the OSU Press has published Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker. Modeled on centenary books published in honor of Einstein and Bohr, the Pauling Centenary volume includes a wide variety of original material, most of it never before published, from the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers kept at Oregon State University. Short contributions from his contemporaries and students, as well as Pauling's leading biographer, round out the content. "Pauling's larger-than-life personality was marked by what appear to be contradictions. Some observers found Pauling arrogant; many others loved him for his humor, humanity, and warmth. Observers likened him to the Pope, to a fascist, a wizard, and a king. He was a write-in candidate for governor of California. He was a target of the FBI. He was listed among the twenty greatest scientists of all time. He was listed as a subversive. He was the only individual to win two unshared Nobel Prizes. He was called brilliant. He was called a threat. He was a complex individual." - From the dustwrapper "This volume should be part of the scientific collection of every academic library." - review in Choice, October 2001. The book is edited by Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager. Date of Publication: January 2001 Publisher: Oregon State University Press (http://osu.orst.edu/dept/press) 272 pages / $35.00 ISBN: 0-87071-489-9 Copies are available from the OSU Bookstore. To order, CLICK HERE. If you have any questions about ordering copies you may contact us at:       • Phone: 541-737-2075       • Fax: 541-737-8674       • Email: special.collections@orst.edu About the Editors Clifford Mead is Associate Professor and Head of Special Collections at Oregon State University, where the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers reside. [http://osu.orst.edu/Dept/Special_Collections] The Pauling collection spans more than 4400 linear feet and contains over 500,000 items. In addition to co-editing The Pauling Symposium: A Discourse on the Art of Biography (1996) and The Pauling Catalogue: Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers at Oregon State University (1991), he has written Thomas Pynchon: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials (1989). Email: cliff.mead@orst.edu Thomas Hager is a science writer, biographer, editor, Assistant Professor and Director of the Office of Communications at the University of Oregon. Hager has written three books - Aging Well (Fireside Press 1991); Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling (Simon and Schuster 1995); and Linus Pauling and the Chemistry of Life (Oxford University Press 1998) - as well as more than 100 feature magazine articles for publications ranging from Reader's Digest to the Medical Tribune. He founded LC Magazine, a trade publication for scientists, in 1983, and for ten years edited Oregon Quarterly, the magazine of the University of Oregon. Email: relhager@oregon.uoregon.edu Back to homepage