Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From his Writings, Speeches and Interviews | 
|  | | | Title: | Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From his Writings, Speeches and Interviews | | Author: | Barbara Marinacci | | Publisher: | Touchstone | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 30 October, 1995 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0684813874 / 9780684813875 | | List Price: | $21.95 | | Amazon Price: | $21.95 | |
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Two-time Nobel Prize winner, Linus Pauling was known for his scientific discoveries and of his breadth of knowledge, which spanned disciplines. The author, who knew Pauling well, has chosen from among more than 60 years of essays, letters, articles, books, speeches and interviews. As Pauling himself says in the Introduction, "This book will take me as close to writing my memoirs or autobiography as I shall ever get."
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• He Trusted His Own Intellect - A Great Scientist's Credo 28 June, 2005
Linus Pauling is the only person to date to win two unshared Nobel Prizes in science. His researches were in a wide variety of areas including nuclear science, genetics, molecular biology , X-ray chrystallography, mineralogy, physical chemistry.
The most valuable parts of his memoirs are his descriptions of his own scientific work and discoveries.
Pauling's motto was " Never put your trust in anything but your own intellect" and he was a tremendously independent researcher, and thinker.
His reputation and his great work were in science, but he also thought out loud and independently on political and health subjects.
I remember hearing him talk years ago at Harpur College in Binghamton New York. I was expecting to hear him talk about his scientific work and discoveries. Instead he went on endlessly about Vitamin C as a cure to all our health problems. Yes, Pauling along with being a pioneering intellect and scientist was a crank also.
His crankiness had its political side in his Pacifism , a pacificism which led to his being accused of being a fellow traveler.(i.e.Communist ).
In fact the idea that nuclear war is insane is one of the most sane ideas imaginable. But equating the US and the late Soviet Union as Pauling often did was mistaken and wrongheaded.
Above all it is best to think of Pauling as a scientist. The enthusiasm he had in exploring nature is felt throughout this work.
He believed himself and other scientists fortunate in that he thought scientists could appreciate and enjoy so much more of the world than others.
He was a true American original , a pioneer researcher at the highest level, and not without a certain sense of humor.
This book may not bear a cover- to - cover reading but whoever looks and searches in it will find much material for the investigating human soul.
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• A Good Book 28 August, 2006
This book is a good introduction into the world of Linus Pauling, a most fascinating person; rather than tell his story for him, Barbara Marinacci allows him to tell his own story. For those, who have already read a good biography or good biographies of him, this book contains no surprises.
All the same, it certainly is inspirational and worth reading.
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• Smart Quotations From A Smart Biochemist 27 February, 2000
i hope that everybody who read this book realy deeply,could understand the true meaning of the two times noble price winner wich is gathered and explained in a very easy to follow,and the real messages that he explined in this super-book!this book reflects his total life-history, philosophy,orthomolecularly,and the real man as a human.very interesting book, and highly recommanded.
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• Short Story Of His Works 04 September, 2002
Book is about more his professional life more than his private life. After very short introduction his scientific life story is told through abbreviated sayings, speeches of his own. Since most of the text is from his speeches and abstracts you get a lot of his opinions and comments on various subjects including use of atomic power.
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• Premier Chemist Of The Twentieth Century 04 December, 2007
Linus Carl Pauling is regarded by many as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. Pauling received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 for his campaign against above-ground nuclear testing, and is the only person to win two Nobel prizes that were not shared with another recipient. The other people who have received two Nobel prizes are Marie Curie (physics and chemistry), John Bardeen (both in physics) and Frederick Sanger (both in chemistry). Later in life, he became an advocate for greatly increased consumption of vitamin C and other nutrients. He generalized his ideas to define orthomolecular medicine, which is still regarded as unorthodox by conventional medicine. He popularized his concepts, analyses, research and insights in several successful but controversial books centered around vitamin C and orthomolecular medicine
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