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Thomas Hager Papers, 1898-2010

1. Force of Nature: Subject Files and Research Materials. 1985-1994.

Series 1 is divided into a number of subseries including Scientific Topics, People, Peace Activism and Political Controversy, Linus Pauling - Personal and Family, and General Research. A wide range of assorted archival materials collected by Tom Hager while researching Force of Nature can also be found in this series.


40 Boxes

1.001.
Scientific Topics: A-B. 1928-1949. 9 Folders
1.1.
Alpha-Helix.
1.2.
Aging.
1.3.
American Chemical Society. 1948-1949.
1.4.
Amino Acids.
1.5.
Anesthesia.
1.6.
Antibodies - General.
1.7.
Astrophysics. 1932.
1.8.
Atomic Theory. Before 1928.
1.9.
Boranes.

1.002.
Scientific Topics: C. undated. 6 Folders
2.1.
Chemical Bond.
2.2.
Chemical Bond Theories - Valence Bond vs. Molecular Orbital.
2.3.
Chemistry and Biology.
2.4.
Chemistry - Nobel Prize.
2.5.
Colds.
2.6.
Crystallography.

1.003.
Scientific Topics: D. 1926-1941. 3 Folders
3.1.
Development of Organic Chemistry. 1936-1941.
3.2.
Dielectric Constants - Van Vleck, etc. 1926.
3.3.
DNA.

1.004.
Scientific Topics: E-H. 1920-1949. 9 Folders
4.1.
Electronegativity. 1932.
4.2.
Electroneutrality. 1948.
4.3.
Eugenics.
4.4.
Explosives and Propellants.
4.5.
Funding Science. 1947-1949.
4.6.
Growth of Science. Before 1920.
4.7.
Hemoglobin.
4.8.
History of Science.
4.9.
Hydrogen Bonding.

1.005.
Scientific Topics: L1. 1930-1953. 3 Folders
5.1.
Lilly Research Laboratories and Insulin. 1947-1953.
5.2.
Linus Pauling Publications.
5.3.
Linus Pauling Scientific. 1930-1939.

1.006.
Scientific Topics: L2. 1940-1994. 2 Folders
6.1.
Linus Pauling Scientific. 1940-1954.
6.2.
Linus Pauling Scientific. 1955-1994.

1.007.
Scientific Topics: M-O. 1939. 11 Folders
7.1.
Medicine.
7.2.
Mental Disease.
7.3.
Metals.
7.4.
Molecular Biology.
7.5.
Molecular Clock.
7.6.
Nature of the Chemical Bond. 1939.
7.7.
National Library of Medicine.
7.8.
NDRC/OSRD/Mobilization.
7.9.
Orthomolecular Psychiatry.
7.10.
Oxygen Meter.
7.11.
Oxypolygelatin.

1.008.
Scientific Topics: P-Q. 1922-1946. 7 Folders
8.1.
Patents.
8.2.
Proteins.
8.3.
Postwar Science Funding [National Science Foundation]. 1945-1946.
8.4.
Punch Card Computers and IBM.
8.5.
Quantum Mechanics. 1922-1936.
8.6.
Quantum Mechanics: Interview of Linus Pauling by John L. Heilbron.
8.7.
Quasicrystals.

1.009.
Scientific Topics: S-Z. 1951. 7 Folders
9.1.
Sickle Cell Anemia.
9.2.
Soviet Reaction to Resonance Theory. 1951.
9.3.
Stochastic Method.
9.4.
Structure of Water.
9.5.
Vitamin C.
9.6.
Vitamins [Pre-Vitamin C].
9.7.
World War II.

1.010.
Peace Activism and Political Controversy: A-E. 1945-1964. 9 Folders
10.1.
America-Israel. 1963.
10.2.
Australia. 1964.
10.3.
Buckley Lawsuit.
10.4.
Budenz, Louis, and HUAC.
10.5.
California Education Committee. 1950.
10.6.
Communists.
10.7.
Condon Case [Edward U. Condon]. 1948.
10.8.
Control of Atomic Energy. 1945-1947.
10.9.
Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists.

1.011.
Peace Activism and Political Controversy: FBI Files, Ava Helen Pauling. 1948-1949. 3 Folders
11.1.
FBI Investigation. 1948-1949.
11.2.
FBI Miscellaneous.
11.3.
Sections No. 1 and 2 [Subject: Ava Helen Pauling].

1.012.
Peace Activism and Political Controversy: FBI Files, Linus Pauling, Sections 1-4. undated. 5 Folders
12.1.
Section No. 1 Part 1 [Subject: Linus Pauling].
12.2.
Section No. 1 Part 2 [Subject: Linus Pauling].
12.3.
Section No. 2 [Subject: Linus Pauling].
12.4.
Section No. 3 [Subject: Linus Pauling].
12.5.
Section No. 4 [Subject: Linus Pauling].

1.013.
Peace Activism and Political Controversy: FBI Files, Linus Pauling, Sections 5-6. undated. 2 Folders
13.1.
Section No. 5 [Subject: Linus Pauling].
13.2.
Section No. 6 [Subject: Linus Pauling].

1.014.
Peace Activism and Political Controversy: FBI Files, Linus Pauling, Sections 7-12. undated. 6 Folders
14.1.
Section No. 7 [Subject: Linus Pauling].
14.2.
Section No. 8 [Subject: Linus Pauling].
14.3.
Section No. 9 [Subject: Linus Pauling].
14.4.
Section No. 10 [Subject: Linus Pauling].
14.5.
Section No. 11 [Subject: Linus Pauling].
14.6.
Section No. 12 [Subject: Linus Pauling].

1.015.
Peace Activism and Political Controversy: FBI Files, Linus Pauling, Sections 13-18. undated. 6 Folders
15.1.
Section No. 13 [Subject: Linus Pauling].
15.2.
Section No. 14 [Subject: Linus Pauling].
15.3.
Section No. 15 [Subject: Linus Pauling].
15.4.
Section No. 16 [Subject: Linus Pauling].
15.5.
Section No. 17 [Subject: Linus Pauling].
15.6.
Section No. 18 [Subject: Linus Pauling].

1.016.
Peace Activism and Political Controversy: F-O. 1937-1964. 14 Folders
16.1.
Fallout and Health.
16.2.
Hennings Subcommittee [State of California]. 1955.
16.3.
Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions.
16.4.
Hollywood Ten. 1950.
16.5.
Industrial Employment Review Board. 1951.
16.6.
Japanese-American Controversies.
16.7.
Kennedy Dinner.
16.8.
Lawsuits.
16.9.
Meet the Press. 1958.
16.10.
Minority of One. 1961-1964.
16.11.
No More War!. 1958.
16.12.
Nuclear Tests. 1945-1957.
16.13.
Other Political. 1937-1953.
16.14.
Oxford Meeting. 1963.

1.017.
Peace Activism and Political Controversy: Passport. 1927-1958. 2 Folders
17.1.
Passport. 1927-1953.
17.2.
Passport. 1954-1958.

1.018.
Peace Activism and Political Controversy: P-Se. 1945-1969. 9 Folders
18.1.
Palmer Committee. 1945.
18.2.
Peace Prize.
18.3.
Public Health Service - Denial of Grants. 1953-1957.
18.4.
Pugwash Movement. 1957.
18.5.
Red Dean of Canterbury.
18.6.
San Francisco Protests. 1960.
18.7.
Scientists in Politics. 1969.
18.8.
Senate Internal Security Committee.
18.9.
Senate Internal Security Committee: Linus Pauling Play.

1.019.
Peace Activism and Political Controversy: St-Z. undated. 6 Folders
19.1.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat Lawsuit.
19.2.
Stanford University - Controversies.
19.3.
State Department Files and the Nobel Peace Prize.
19.4.
Support for the Politically Repressed.
19.5.
Union Now and Early Politics.
19.6.
Vietnam.

1.020.
People: A-L. undated. 30 Folders
20.1.
Addis, Thomas.
20.2.
Astbury, William.
20.3.
Bacher, Robert.
20.4.
Beadle, George.
20.5.
Beckman, Arnold.
20.6.
Bernal, John.
20.7.
Branson, Herman.
20.8.
Bridges, Harry.
20.9.
Cameron, Ewan.
20.10.
Carlson, Chester.
20.11.
Catchpool, Frank.
20.12.
Corey, Robert.
20.13.
Delbrück, Max.
20.14.
DuBridge, Lee.
20.15.
Durr, Clifford and Virginia.
20.16.
Einstein, Albert.
20.17.
Fajans, Kasimir.
20.18.
Freeman, W.H.
20.19.
Goertzel, Mildred and White, Florence.
20.20.
Goudsmit, Samuel.
20.21.
Heitler, Walter and London, Fritz.
20.22.
Hershey, Alfred.
20.23.
Huggins, Maurice.
20.24.
Itano, Harvey.
20.25.
Koepfli, Joseph.
20.26.
Landsteiner, Karl.
20.27.
Langmuir, Irving.
20.28.
Lewis, G.N.
20.29.
Lippman, Richard.
20.30.
Lipscomb, William.

1.021.
People: M. undated. 6 Folders
21.1.
Marcuson, Richard.
21.2.
Millikan, Robert.
21.3.
Mirsky, Alfred.
21.4.
Morgan, Thomas Hunt.
21.5.
Muller, Herman.
21.6.
Mulliken, Robert.

1.022.
People: N-R. undated. 6 Folders
22.1.
Noyes, Arthur.
22.2.
Oppenheimer, Robert.
22.3.
Perutz, Max.
22.4.
Rath, Matthias.
22.5.
Robinson, Art.
22.6.
Russell, Lord Bertrand.

1.023.
People: S. undated. 8 Folders
23.1.
Schrödinger, Erwin.
23.2.
Schweitzer, Albert.
23.3.
Serafini, Anthony.
23.4.
Slater, John.
23.5.
Sobell, Morton.
23.6.
Sommerfeld, Arnold.
23.7.
Spitzer, Ralph.
23.8.
Szent-Gyorgi, Albert.

1.024.
People: T-Z. undated. 11 Folders
24.1.
Teller, Edward.
24.2.
Tolman, Richard.
24.3.
Wallace, Henry.
24.4.
Watson, Honest Jim.
24.5.
Weaver, Warren.
24.6.
Weinbaum, Sidney.
24.7.
Wheland, George.
24.8.
Wilson, E. Bright.
24.9.
Wrinch, Dorothy.
24.10.
Yost, Don.
24.11.
Zechmeister, Laszlo.

1.025.
Institutions: A-Ca. 1929-1964. 23 Folders
25.1.
Berkeley Visits. 1929-1935.
25.2.
California Institute of Technology.
25.3.
Caltech Student Attitudes. 1937-1940.
25.4.
Caltech. 1953-1956.
25.5.
Caltech. 1959-1961.
25.6.
Caltech - Pauling's Departure and Later. 1961-1963.
25.7.
Caltech and Insulin.
25.8.
Caltech and the Depression.
25.9.
Caltech - Biographies and Faculty.
25.10.
Caltech - Crellin Laboratory of Chemistry.
25.11.
Caltech - Engineering and Science Letters. Early 1930s.
25.12.
Caltech - Freshman Chemistry. 1941.
25.13.
Caltech - General and History.
25.14.
Caltech - Interviews.
25.15.
Caltech - Linus Pauling as Chair.
25.16.
Caltech - Pauling Teaching and Administration. 1946-1955.
25.17.
Caltech Postwar.
25.18.
Caltech - Resigning as Division Head. 1958.
25.19.
Caltech Student.
25.20.
Caltech Trustees Catalogue. 1957-1964.
25.21.
Caltech - Women in Science.
25.22.
Caltech - World War II.
25.23.
Caltech - Zuckerman Interview. 1964.

1.026.
Institutions: Ce-Z. 1925-1929. 6 Folders
26.1.
Center for Democratic Institutions.
26.2.
Harvard. 1929.
26.3.
National Research Council and Guggenheim. 1925-1927.
26.4.
Oregon Agricultural College.
26.5.
Rockefeller Foundation.
26.6.
UC San Diego.

1.027.
Linus Pauling - Personal and Family: A-K. 1948. 11 Folders
27.1.
Ava Helen Pauling: About.
27.2.
Awards.
27.3.
Belle Pauling.
27.4.
Belle Pauling's Hospitalization.
27.5.
Cliff Incident.
27.6.
Condon, Oregon.
27.7.
Deer Flat Ranch.
27.8.
England. 1948.
27.9.
Europe.
27.10.
Family.
27.11.
Hawthorne Street and Portland.

1.028.
Linus Pauling - Personal and Family: L1. 1959-1971. 4 Folders
28.1.
Langmuir Prize.
28.2.
Linda Pauling Kamb and Barclay Kamb.
28.3.
Linus Pauling: About. 1959-1961, 1964-1971.
28.4.
Linus Pauling: Childhood.

1.029.
Linus Pauling - Personal and Family: L2. 1937-1959. 6 Folders
29.1.
Linus Pauling: Critical Abilities.
29.2.
Linus Pauling: General. 1957-1959.
29.3.
Linus Pauling: General Traits.
29.4.
Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine.
29.5.
Linus Pauling: Interviews - Europe.
29.6.
Linus Pauling: Laboratory Work and Teachers. 1937-1941.

1.030.
Linus Pauling - Personal and Family: L3. 1931-1971. 8 Folders
30.1.
Linus Pauling: Memorials.
30.2.
Linus Pauling: Popular. 1964-1971.
30.3.
Linus Pauling: Possible.
30.4.
Linus Pauling: Review Papers.
30.5.
Linus Pauling: Teaching. 1931-1937.
30.6.
Linus Pauling: Thoughts on Advertisements.
30.7.
Linus Wilson Darling.
30.8.
Los Angeles Times Newspaper Clippings.

1.031.
Linus Pauling - Personal and Family: M-N. undated. 5 Folders
31.1.
Miscellaneous Personal and Family.
31.2.
Neal Family Genealogy.
31.3.
Nephritis.
31.4.
New York Times Newspaper Clippings.
31.5.
Nova Interview.

1.032.
Linus Pauling - Personal and Family: O-Z. undated. 10 Folders
32.1.
Oswego, Oregon [Lake Oswego].
32.2.
Pauling Family Genealogy.
32.3.
Pauling, Herman.
32.4.
Personality.
32.5.
Peter Pauling.
32.6.
Philosophy and Religion.
32.7.
Photos of Pauling, Family, and Colleagues.
32.8.
Popular Biographical.
32.9.
Racism.
32.10.
Salaries.

1.033.
Correspondence and Interviews Used in Researching Force of Nature. 1985-1994. 3 Folders
33.1.
Correspondence: Hager and Pauling. 1985-1994.
33.2.
Assorted Materials re: Non-Pauling Interviews Conducted by Tom Hager.
33.3.
Non-Hager Interviews with Linus Pauling.

1.034.
Assorted Hager Research Notes re: Force of Nature. undated. 1 Folder
34.1.
Assorted Research Notes re: Force of Nature.

1.035.
Materials re: Archival Sources Used in Researching Force of Nature. 1990-1993. 6 Folders
35.1.
Correspondence: American Institute of Physics. 1990-1992.
35.2.
Materials re: Archival Sources Used in Researching Force of Nature, Part 1. 1991-1993.
35.3.
Materials re: Archival Sources Used in Researching Force of Nature, Part 2. 1991-1993.
35.4.
Materials re: Freedom of Information Act Requests. 1991.
35.5.
California Institute of Technology Archives.
35.6.
Materials re: Potential Individual Research Contacts. 1991-1993.

1.036.
Assorted Research Materials re: Force of Nature. 1972. 4 Folders
36.1.
Biographical Sketches of Linus Pauling.
36.2.
Biographical Sketches of Linus Pauling's Colleagues.
36.3.
German Language Documents for Translation.
36.4.
The Structural Chemistry of Linus Pauling by Robert Paradowski. 1972.

1.037.
General Research, Part 1. 1928-1994. 5 Folders
37.1.
General. 1928-1955.
37.2.
General. 1963.
37.3.
General. 1964-1971.
37.4.
General. 1972-1994.
37.5.
General: Linus Pauling.

1.038.
General Research, Part 2. 1955-1961. 2 Folders
38.1.
General Correspondence . 1955-1956.
38.2.
General Correspondence. 1961.

1.039.
General Research, Part 3. 1962. 2 Folders
39.1.
General Correspondence. 1962.
39.2.
"Insert Back".
This folder was originally titled by Tom Hager.

1.040.
General Research, Part 4. undated. 3 Folders
40.1.
General Loose Items Part 1.
40.2.
General Loose Items Part 2.
40.3.
General Loose Items Part 3.