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Linus Pauling Centenary Symposium 2/28/01

• Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:20:13 -0800
• To: sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: Faye Harkins <harkins@orst.edu>
• Subject: Linus Pauling Centenary Symposium 2/28/01
• Message-ID: E3C3B49D9AFBD311B42B00D0B72CE56901F0F6F6@mtbachelor.nws.orst.edu

Please excuse the cross-posting of this announcement.

Oregon State University is pleased to announce an all-day symposium honoring
the life and work of one of it's most famous alumni-- Linus Pauling
(1901-1994).

9:00-6:00 February 28, 2001
LaSells Stewart Center
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon

Keynote address by Ahmed Zewail, Nobel laureate in chemistry and Linus
Pauling Professor of Chemical Physics at the California Institute of
Technology:
"Timing in the Invisible". 
Other speakers include 
Jack Dunitz, Professor of Chemical Crystallography, Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology, Zurich
"Space Filling in Molecular Solids"
Robert J. Paradowski, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY:
"An American in Munich: Truth and Controversy in the Life and Work of Linus
Pauling during the Golden Years of Physics (1926-1927)
Linus Pauling, Jr., M.D., Chairman, Board of Trustees, Linus Pauling
Institute of Science and Medicine
"Life with Father...and Mother"
Thomas Hager, Assistant Professor and Director of the Office of
Communications, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 

The Symposium is free and open to the public.
Other events associated with the Pauling Centenary can be found at:
http://pauling.library.orst.edu
Or you may contact Oregon State University Special
Collections--541.737.2075.

_________________
Faye Harkins 
Valley Library/Special Collections
121 Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR  97331
(541) 737.2075
(541) 737.8674 (fax)