Linus Pauling - Selected Scientific Papers (In 2 Volumes) - Volume 2

Download or read book Linus Pauling - Selected Scientific Papers (In 2 Volumes) - Volume 2 written by Barclay Kamb and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001-11-02 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.