Hilton Portland and Executive Tower, Portland, OR

Rockefeller University professor Dr. Roderick MacKinnon, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, spoke in Portland, Oregon on Monday, May 5, 2008. His lecture, titled "Ion Channel Chemistry: The Electrical System of Life," was presented at the Portland Hilton & Executive Tower. MacKinnon is the fifth recipient of the Linus Pauling Legacy Award, granted once every two years for outstanding achievement in an area of study once of interest to Dr. Linus Pauling. The Pauling Legacy Award is sponsored by Oregon State University Libraries.

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On October 29-30, 2007 a two-day conference at Oregon State University's LaSells Stewart Center was held to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of Linus Pauling's General Chemistry and the fiftieth anniversary of Linus and Ava Helen Pauling's first public appeal for a ban on nuclear weapons testing. The theme of the conference was "The Scientist as Educator and Public Citizen: Linus Pauling and His Era."

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From February 28 - March 2, 1995, a symposium was held at Oregon State University's LaSells Stewart Center to celebrate and discuss the remarkable life and legacy of Dr. Linus Pauling. The aim of the symposium was to convene three groups of speakers: scholars and journalists who had been writing about Linus Pauling as a biographical subject; friends and colleagues who knew Pauling personally; historians and archivists who have studied scientists as the subject of contemporary scientific biography.

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