Linus Pauling: A Centenary Exhibit

1926


Traveling in Europe
In Ava Helen's travel diary, Linus and Ava Helen made notes together on opposite pages. They traveled to the Mediterranean on their way to Munich, where Pauling had a Guggenheim Fellowship to study theoretical physics under Arnold Sommerfeld. Pauling was among the few American chemists to gain an early grounding in this field.

Traveling in Europe

 
 

1931


The Nature Of The Chemical Bond
A manuscript for one of a series of papers from 1931 to 1933 for which Pauling was most well-known as a chemist. Referring to it, he once said, "If I were to choose for myself, I should like to be remembered as the person who discovered hybridization of orbitals (the subject of a paper I wrote in 1931)."

The Nature Of The Chemical Bond

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