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Molecular Models
Pauling began making models in 1927, first of paper and wire, then with plastic balls and sticks and later with metal and wood. They aided him in what he called his "stochastic method" of visualizing possible structures imagined on a theoretical basis, following chemical principles applied to limited empirical data. Pauling's models were an inventive methodology, now ubiquitous in molecular research. 
1939
The Nature of the Chemical Bond One of the most influential science books of the 20th century. The book summarized the scientific work of which Pauling was most celebrated: the statement of principles to explain chemical bonding, for which, until Pauling, there had been only empirical data. "In retrospect, it appears that chemistry was waiting for Pauling. His chapters in The Nature of the Chemical Bond and Structure of Molecules and Crystals, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century...were a road map for chemical research for the rest of the century." [Bautam R. Desiraju, Nature, 23 November 2000] |
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