Triple Point » History http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint A selection of posts from Ponto Triplo - a Portuguese blog with links to the best chemistry sites, news and events Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:15:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Linus Pauling: It’s in the Blood! http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2005/04/linus_pauling_i.html http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2005/04/linus_pauling_i.html#comments Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:18:27 +0000 Jorge Goncalves http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/?p=110 ]]> Again, from Oregon State University Libraries, another notable site dedicated to the work of Linus Pauling: It’s in the Blood! A Documentary History of Linus Pauling, Hemoglobin, and Sickle Cell Anemia. From the homepage: ‘Linus Pauling began his professional life studying atoms, and ended it best known for his thoughts on medicine. Linking these two fields was a central body of work on the nature of human blood. During the most productive thirty years of his life, between the mid-1930s and mid-1960s, Pauling’s research in this area not only advanced our understanding of how the blood works at the molecular level, but branched and blossomed into vital discoveries about immunology, sickle-cell anemia, genetics, evolution, and human health. Incorporating more than 300 scanned documents, photographs, audio clips and video excerpts, this web resource includes images of a number of very important and extremely rare items, most of which are held within The Valley Library’s Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, many of which have not been previously displayed.’

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]]> http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2005/04/linus_pauling_i.html/feed 0 Linus Pauling and the Nature of the Chemical Bond: A Documentary History http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/12/linus_pauling_a_1.html http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/12/linus_pauling_a_1.html#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:31:00 +0000 Jorge Goncalves http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/?p=60 ]]> From Oregon State University, we have this magnificent site about one of the most important discoveries in modern science. Launched at December 10, to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Linus Pauling’s receipt of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, this site contains about 800 documents, some of them unique, like the manuscript of Pauling’s first paper on the nature of the chemical bond, written in April 1931 or the correspondence with scientists like G. N. Lewis, A. A. Noyes and I. Langmuir. The site has mainly three sections: a narrative, describing the details of Linus Pauling discoveries, a documents repository (with letters, manuscripts, photographs, audio-clips and videos excerpts) and a curious diary, with notes of Pauling’s personal and professional activities through 1930 until 1939 as well as his Nobel year of 1954.

Other notable websites about Linus Pauling’s work: Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA and Linus Pauling Research Notebooks.

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]]> http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/12/linus_pauling_a_1.html/feed 0 Chemistry in the 18th Century http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/12/chemistry_in_th_1.html http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/12/chemistry_in_th_1.html#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2004 00:14:30 +0000 Jorge Goncalves http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/?p=51 ]]> Some interesting notes from ScienceWeek – History of Chemistry: On Chemistry in the 18th Century.

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]]> http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/12/chemistry_in_th_1.html/feed 0 Linus Pauling Research Notebooks http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/11/linus_pauling_r_1.html http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/11/linus_pauling_r_1.html#comments Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:16:00 +0000 Jorge Goncalves http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/?p=42 ]]> Sometimes it is not easy to persuade the students to use laboratory notebooks to take their notes. May be with an example like this, things start to change…

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]]> http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/11/linus_pauling_r_1.html/feed 0 Citation Classics Commentaries http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/11/citation_classi_1.html http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/11/citation_classi_1.html#comments Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:59:05 +0000 Jorge Goncalves http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/?p=38 ]]> Between 1977 and 1993, Eugene Garfield has chosen, each week, one of the most cited articles, an article that has become a classic in its field, and asked a commentary to the author. The idea was to uncover the human side of scientific papers. Authors were invited to write about interesting aspects of their work, the contributions of co-authors or the difficulties they had to overcome during the development of their work. These Citation Classics Commentaries, jointly with a synopsis of the work, can be found here (source: CHMINF-L).

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]]> http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/11/citation_classi_1.html/feed 0 Sci-Philately http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/11/sciphilately_1.html http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/11/sciphilately_1.html#comments Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:52:00 +0000 Jorge Goncalves http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/?p=22 ]]> Not only for philatelists, A Selective History of Science on Stamps, a remarkable idea.

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]]> http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/11/sciphilately_1.html/feed 0 Elements of Life http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/11/elements_of_lif.html http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/11/elements_of_lif.html#comments Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:24:00 +0000 Jorge Goncalves http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/?p=19 ]]> Integrated in an effort going under way to show the positive side of Chemistry, Cefic presents this campaign: Chemistry – Elements of Life. In this site, common applications of some chemical elements (hydrogen, fluorine, silicon, aluminium, titanium and nitrogen) are provided as announcements. As a complement, visitors have the opportunity to see some milestones of Chemistry and to play a game based on the periodic table, in which they can win some interesting prizes.

Another site from Cefic with the same goal: Chemistry and You. The idea is to show the presence of chemistry in our daily life.

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]]> http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/11/elements_of_lif.html/feed 0 The History of Chemical Engineering http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/11/the_history_of_1.html http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/2004/11/the_history_of_1.html#comments Tue, 09 Nov 2004 01:06:00 +0000 Jorge Goncalves http://pontotriplo.org/triplepoint/?p=9 ]]> The History of Chemical Engineering, according to Wayne Pafko. This site has a simple layout and it is very well organized. The author accepts contributions, in order to complement the information that is already online. It is possible to download a version of the site in pdf format. This History of Chemical Engineering is a good starting point for those who are interested in this subject.

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