Linus Pauling

Thorough discussion of the various types of bonds, their relative natures, and the structure of molecules and crystals

An Introduction to Modern Structural Chemistry

The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals

Edgar Bright Wilson

When this classic text was first published in 1935, it fulfilled the goal of its authors "to produce a textbook of practical quantum mechanics for the chemist, the experimental physicist, and the beginning student of theoretical physics." Although many who are teachers today once worked with the book as students, the text is still as valuable for the same undergraduate audience. Two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, Research Professor at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, Palo Alto, California, and E. Bright Wilson, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Harvard University, provide a readily understandable study of "wave mechanics," discussing the Schrodinger wave equation and the problems which can be solved with it. Extensive knowledge of mathematics is not required, although the student must have a grasp of elementary mathematics through the calculus. Pauling and Wilson begin with a survey of classical mechanics, including Newton's equations of motion in the Lagrangian form, and then move on to the "old" quantum theory, developed through the work of Planck, Einstein and Bohr. This analysis leads to the heart of the book ? an explanation of quantum mechanics which, as Schrodinger formulated it, "involves the renunciation of the hope of describing in exact detail the behavior of a system." Physics had created a new realm in which classical, Newtonian certainties were replaced by probabilities ? a change which Heisenberg's uncertainty principle (described in this book) subsequently reinforced. With clarity and precision, the authors guide the student from topic to topic, covering such subjects as the wave functions for the hydrogen atom, perturbation theory, the Pauli exclusion principle, the structure of simple and complex molecules, Van der Waals forces, and systems in thermodynamic equilibrium. To insure that the student can follow the mathematical derivations, Pauling and Wilson avoid the "temptation to condense the various discussions into shorter and perhaps more elegant forms" appropriate for a more advanced audience. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics is a perfect vehicle for demonstrating the practical application of quantum mechanics to a broad spectrum of chemical and physical problems.

With Applications to Chemistry

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

Revised third edition of classic first-year text by Nobel laureate. Covers atomic and molecular structure, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and thermodynamics correlated with descriptive chemistry. Problems.

General Chemistry

No More War!

The Noble laureate and vitamin-C champion reviews the evidence supporting the value of vitamin C for controlling the common cold, influenza, and other viral diseases

Vitamin C, the Common Cold, and the Flu

A Brief Introduction to Modern Structural Chemistry

The Chemical Bond

Barclay Kamb

Linda Pauling Kamb

Linus Pauling wrote a stellar series of over 800 scientific papers spanning an amazing range of fields, some of which he himself initiated. This book is a selection of the most important of his writings in the fields of quantum mechanics, chemical bonding (covalent, ionic, metallic, and hydrogen bonding), molecular rotation and entropy, protein structure, hemoglobin, molecular disease, molecular evolution, the antibody mechanism, the molecular basis of anesthesia, orthomolecular medicine, radiation chemistry?biology, and nuclear structure. Through these papers the reader gets a fresh, unfiltered view of the genius of Pauling's many contributions to chemistry, chemical physics, molecular biology, and molecular medicine.

Selected Scientific Papers

Ervin Laszlo

Chŏng-nyŏl Yu

Jong Youl Yoo

The World Encyclopedia of Peace is the first attempt of its kind to provide an integrated body of information on peace in all its aspects. The Encyclopedia has two predominant themes: peace research and peace activism. In combining these two themes, the Editors have sought to demonstrate the inter-relationships between them and the ways in which they have fostered each other. Consequently, peace is discussed in these volumes from a very broad spectrum of perspectives: from the idealist to the realist; from the global to the subnational; from the cultural to the economic; from the religious to the feminist; and from the historical to the contemporary.

World Encyclopedia of Peace

Details a simple and inexpensive way to extend life by twenty to thirty vital years through proper nutrition, the use of vitamins, and other methods.

How to Live Longer and Feel Better

Abram Hoffer

In case studies and statistics, here are the results of Dr. Hoffer's nutritional or orthomolecular treatment on hundreds of patients suffering from various forms of cancer. These results show that megadoses of vitamin C and other nutrients are highly effective in reversing the progress of this disease in many cases-and also improve patients' the quality of life. Vitamin C & Cancer refutes critics of megavitamin treatment for cancer and offers new hope to cancer patients for surviving this disease.

Discovery, Recovery, Controversy

Vitamin C and Cancer

Daisaku Ikeda

A Lifelong Quest for Peace: A Dialogue will provided readers the opportunity to get to know Dr. Pauling and Mr. Ikeda, as they seek to provide pointers to help the young people of today solve the problems of the twenty-first century.

A Dialogue

A Lifelong Quest for Peace

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary

Considers possible communist influence behind Dr. Linus Pauling's collection of signatures from scientists around the world to petition the U.N. to ban the use and production of nuclear weapons.

Report of the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws to the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, with Individual Views of Kenneth B. Keating

Testimony of Dr. Linus Pauling, June 21 and October 11, 1960

Pt. III. Biological macromolecules. ch. 11. Hemoglobin: Oxygen bonding and magnetic properties papers SP 82 to SP -- ch. 12. Antibodies: Structure and function papers SP 88 to SP 94 -- ch. 13. The alpha helix and the structure of proteins papers SP 95 to SP 111 -- ch. 14. Molecular biology: The role of large molecules in life and evolution papers SP 112 to SP 121 -- pt. IV. Health and medicine. ch. 15. Molecular disease papers SP 122 to SP 126 -- ch. 16. Physiological chemistry, effects of radiation, and health hazards papers SP 127 to SP 133 -- ch. 17. Orthomolecular medicine papers SP 134 to SP 144 -- pt. V. Summary of Linus Pauling's life and scientific work. ch. 18. Biographical memoir, by Prof. Jack D. Dunitz

E. Bright Wilson

Classic undergraduate text explores wave functions for the hydrogen atom, perturbation theory, the Pauli exclusion principle, and the structure of simple and complex molecules. Numerous tables and figures.

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Applications to Chemistry

Barbara Marinacci

Selected writings share the late scientist's views on chemistry, education, the structure of matter, proteins, nuclear politics, fallout, and nutritional medicine

Selections From His Writings, Speeches and Interviews

Linus Pauling in His Own Words

Linus Pauling: Biomolecular sciences

How to Live Longer and Feel Better introduces to a new generation of health-conscious readers Linus Pauling's regimen for healthy longevity. Eminently readable and challenging, and a New York Times bestseller when it was first published in 1986, Pauling's seminal work helped to revolutionize the way Americans think about nutrition.

David Hawkins

Discusses research findings, clinical procedures, and theoretical bases for the application of orthomolecular principles to cases of schizophrenia, alcoholism, and drug addiction where perceptual dysfunction and chemical-nutritive brain imbalances are indicated. Bibliogs

H. Smith

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