Linus Pauling Lecture: Valence and Molecular Structure Part 1

This video was produced for the National Science Foundation by the California Institute of Technology in the 1950's. It is an original lecture on valence and molecular structure by Linus Pauling, an Oregon State University alum and the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes.

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[Ejohnson18]

Being a current student at Oregon State it is great to get a chance to learn from a well know OSU alumni and a Noble Prize winning chemist. Great video!

[oregonstateuniv]

I agree, it really is nice to see such a storied scientist in action! I am posting the next two parts right now!

[bellinivernon]

Exelente ! ; gracias ,desde argentina.

[oregonstateuniv]

Gracias por el comentario!

[muffinman1]

very good, like Linus is Carl Sagan of chemistry.

[aligborat]

I never said he wasn't a great scientist, just that he didn't predict quarks. Lord Kelvin didn't invent aerodynamics but it doesn't mean I don't think he was a great scientist. You sound like one of those fanatics who has to believe their heroes had a hand in everything important developed during their lives. Pauling was still great, just like Mendeleev was great, although Mendeleev didn't invent atomic physics anymore than Pauling invented quarks. Sorry I touched a raw nerve, buddy.

[aligborat]

How did I pull 1987 out of my butt? You said they weren't discovered until 30 yrs. after this film which was in 1957. They were observed in 1968, it's just that no one knew what they were at the time. They were belatedly recognized as such later, but the evidence was there. I'm not trolling, just correcting the historical record, because of the comment about cold fusion, which I see what you were trying to say, but the comment wasn't exactly clear and that 10 year comment made the meaning muddy.

[cuthwulf]

@cuthwulf Now quit "trolling". We all see that you want to be smart badly. You're missing the whole point and you have found yourself arguing that Pauling was not amazing...this alone proves that you haven't opened a science textbook in your life but rather thought it would be fun to google some answers and try and sound like you know something. Pauling's work literally is found in almost every branch of science. Arguing that he is not amazing only proves how little you know.

[cuthwulf]

@aligborat so you did...and this time it didn't take you 8 months to find it out. You get a cupie doll. Tell you what..which is worse...me being off on the amount of time or you just randomly pulling 1987 out of your butt? Oh I guess you didn't want to address that. And by the way, you might want to look up your evidence. There was a "suggestion" that quarks were around in 1968. Quarks were actually observed later. You're missing the whole point..it's 1957..Pauling hints at quarks. Think!

[aligborat]

You said Columbia U "reversed" their findings, it didn't take anyone 10 years to refute cold fusion, it took a few months. The first quarks were discovered in 1968 which would be let's see would be 11 years after this film was made, not " 30 years before the first quark was observed" Noticed that, I quoted that one exactly.

[cuthwulf]

@aligborat oh and while we're at it...where the heck did I say quarks were discovered in 1987?...and you're point is invalid anyways, because if you'd taken a second to read the description of the video...they were produced in the 1950's !!!!...almost 18 years before quarks or partons were discovered. Dr. Pauling is talking about them...sure they later discovered that it's only neutrons and protons, not electrons. But this is before that size of matter was even considered possible.

[cuthwulf]

@aligborat it took you 8 months to look up all that, did it? You totally need to check YOUR stupid facts. My quote is "He said(my MSE teacher) asked Pauling about the cold fusion work being done.....AT COLUMBIA U." In other words...the work was being done(at Utah)...Pauling was giving a speech at Columbia. Look it up...the findings were presented at Columbia U. If this is what you call fact finding...please stay out of science. You made an assumption...that alone makes you a poor scientist.

[aligborat]

Dude, you need to fact check before you post, first off the "cold fusion work" was done at the University of Utah, not Columbia U, and it was proposed and refuted by scientists within about a 6 month period back in 1989, not over 10 yrs. He isn't proposing quarks in the lecture because he mentions electrons being made of smaller particles and they are not, like quarks they have no substructure. It was just speculation on his part, and lastly the first 3 quarks were discovered in 1968, not 1987.

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[Benjuthula]

Thanks for posting. This is what makes YouTube great.