From elewars@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca Tue Aug 30 15:52:53 1994 Received: from alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca for elewars@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca by www.ccl.net (8.6.9/930601.1506) id OAA05668; Tue, 30 Aug 1994 14:59:18 -0400 Received: (from elewars@localhost) by alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA15255 for chemistry@ccl.net; Tue, 30 Aug 1994 15:00:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 15:00:10 -0400 From: "E. Lewars" Message-Id: <199408301900.PAA15255@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> To: chemistry@ccl.net Subject: LINUS PAULING Here's another tribute to the late Linus Pauling, by another great, the science and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, who died in 1992. In his eclectic biography *I. Asimov*, Asimov recounts (see also his more conventional biography, published about 1980) how transformed chemistry seemed to him when he again took up his Ph.D. research after a hiatus engendered by war work: "In September 1946, therefore, I presented myself at Columbia, ready to go back to work....However, ypu can't go home again. ...while I had been gone, there had been a revolution in chemistry with the application of quantum mechanics to it, something brought on largely by the work of the great Linus Pauling....I had not kept up with that change and was apalled to find that chemistry had turned into Greek for me." (Asimov did get his Ph.D.) === E. Lewars ===