| 1930 |
• Works on quantum mechanics in Germany at Arnold Sommerfeld's Institute for Theoretical Physics; resolves problems concerning quantum mechanics of the chemical bond.
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| 1931 |
• Peter Jeffress Pauling born, February 10.
• Made full professor at Caltech.
• Receives the first A.C. Langmuir Prize of the American Chemical Society.
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| 1932 |
• Linda Helen Pauling born, May 31.
• Meets Albert Einstein, who attends a seminar conducted by Pauling on the quantum mechanics of the chemical bond.
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| 1933 |
• Elected youngest member of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Receives his first honorary degree from Oregon State College.
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| 1934 |
• Receives three-year grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to support research on the structure of hemoglobin.
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| 1935 |
• Publishes, with E. Bright Wilson, Jr., Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, with Applications to Chemistry.
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| 1937 |
• Is appointed Director of the Gates Laboratory and Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.
• Edward Crellin Pauling born, June 4.
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| 1939 |
• Publishes The Nature of the Chemical Bond, and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals. This book, Pauling's greatest, becomes, by the end of the century, "the most cited book in the scientific literature."
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