Linus Pauling

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. Contents.: Biological Macromolecules: Antibodies: Structure and Function; The Alpha Helix and the Structure of Proteins; Health and Medicine: Molecular Disease; Orthomolecular Medicine; Summary of Linus Pauling's Life and Scientific Work: Biographical Memoir (J D Dunitz); and other papers. Readership: Chemists, biochemists, molecular biologists and physicists.