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The architecture of molecules / Linus Pauling and Roger Hayward.

By: Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994.
Contributor(s): Hayward, Roger, 1899-1979.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, 1964Description: x, [117 ] p. ill. ; 26 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0716701588.Subject(s): Molecular structureDDC classification: 539.12
Contents:
A crystal of graphite and its structure -- Electrons and atomic nuclei -- Electron shells -- The periodic table of the elements -- The hydrogen molecule -- Valence -- History of the water molecule -- The bond angle in the water molecule and similar molecules -- The halogen molecules -- The sulfur molecule -- Molecules containing nitrogen or phosphorus atoms -- The regular polyhedra:the cube -- The tetrahedron -- The methane molecule -- The structure of a diamond -- A view of a diamond crystal -- The ethane molecule -- The normal butane molecule -- The isobutane molecule -- The cyclopropane molecule -- The cyclopentane molecule -- The cyclohexane molecule -- A large hydrocarbon ring -- A molecule that is two linked rings -- The polyoma virus -- Double bonds and triple bonds -- The framework of the Prussian blue crystal -- The Prussian blue crystal -- The octahedron -- Isomeric molecules with octahedral coordination -- The hexamethlenetetramine molecule -- The icosahedron -- The tetragonal boron crystal -- An icosahedral borohydride ion -- The decaborane molecule -- The tetraborane molecule -- The carbon atom with ligancy six -- The ferrocene molecule -- The hydrogen bond -- The double molecules of acetic acid -- Ice -- A dense form of ice -- The pentagonal dodecahedron -- The clathrate crystal xenon hydrate -- The molecule of glycine the simpliest amino acid -- Left handed and right handed molecules of alanine -- The glycylglycine molecule -- The molecular architecture of silk -- Folding a polypeptide chain:a problem in molecular architecture -- More about the alpha helix -- A part of the myoglobin molecule -- The structure of the heme molecule -- The iron atom in hemoglobin and myoglobin -- The molecular disease -- A molecular abnormality that does not cause a disease -- Molecular competition:sulfanilamide and para aminobenzoic acid -- An antiviral molecule.

A crystal of graphite and its structure -- Electrons and atomic nuclei -- Electron shells -- The periodic table of the elements -- The hydrogen molecule -- Valence -- History of the water molecule -- The bond angle in the water molecule and similar molecules -- The halogen molecules -- The sulfur molecule -- Molecules containing nitrogen or phosphorus atoms -- The regular polyhedra:the cube -- The tetrahedron -- The methane molecule -- The structure of a diamond -- A view of a diamond crystal -- The ethane molecule -- The normal butane molecule -- The isobutane molecule -- The cyclopropane molecule -- The cyclopentane molecule -- The cyclohexane molecule -- A large hydrocarbon ring -- A molecule that is two linked rings -- The polyoma virus -- Double bonds and triple bonds -- The framework of the Prussian blue crystal -- The Prussian blue crystal -- The octahedron -- Isomeric molecules with octahedral coordination -- The hexamethlenetetramine molecule -- The icosahedron -- The tetragonal boron crystal -- An icosahedral borohydride ion -- The decaborane molecule -- The tetraborane molecule -- The carbon atom with ligancy six -- The ferrocene molecule -- The hydrogen bond -- The double molecules of acetic acid -- Ice -- A dense form of ice -- The pentagonal dodecahedron -- The clathrate crystal xenon hydrate -- The molecule of glycine the simpliest amino acid -- Left handed and right handed molecules of alanine -- The glycylglycine molecule -- The molecular architecture of silk -- Folding a polypeptide chain:a problem in molecular architecture -- More about the alpha helix -- A part of the myoglobin molecule -- The structure of the heme molecule -- The iron atom in hemoglobin and myoglobin -- The molecular disease -- A molecular abnormality that does not cause a disease -- Molecular competition:sulfanilamide and para aminobenzoic acid -- An antiviral molecule.

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Linus Pauling was born on February 28, 1901 in Portland, Oregon. He never received a high school diploma because he dropped out of Washington High School in Portland as a form of protest against taking courses he regarded as pointless. Despite not having a high school diploma, he received a B. S. in chemical engineering from Oregon Agricultural College in 1922 and a Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1925.

He did research and taught at the California Institute of Technology from 1922 to 1963, was a research professor at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in California from 1963 to 1967, taught at the University of California, San Diego until 1969, and then taught at Stanford University, where he was forced to retire after his 70th birthday. After leaving Stanford, he set up the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine.

He received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1954, as a result of his research into the nature of the chemical bond, the force that gives atoms the cohesiveness to form the molecules that in turn become the basis of all physical matter. Around 1960, he began a campaign to obtain the signatures of scientists opposed to nuclear testing. A total of 11,021 scientists in 49 countries signed the petitions. He received the Nobel Prize for peace in 1962 for his work since 1946 "not only against the testing of nuclear weapons, not only against the spread of these armaments, not only against their very use, but against all warfare as a means of solving international conflicts."

He wrote several books during his lifetime including The Nature of the Chemical Bond, His No More War, and Vitamin C and the Common Cold. He died from cancer on August 19, 1994 at the age of 93.

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