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===Commemorations === Oregon State University completed construction of the $77 million, {{convert|100,000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} Linus Pauling Science Center in the late 2000s, now housing the bulk of Oregon State's chemistry classrooms, labs, and instruments.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Linus Pauling Science Center {{!}} Department of Chemistry {{!}} Oregon State University |url=http://chemistry.oregonstate.edu/lpsc |access-date=November 10, 2016 |website=chemistry.oregonstate.edu}}</ref> On March 6, 2008, the [[United States Postal Service]] released a 41 cent stamp honoring Pauling designed by artist [[Victor Stabin]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 6, 2008 |title=Four Legends of American Science Now on U.S. Postage Stamps |work=United States Postal Service Postal News, Release No. 08-23 |url=https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2008/sr08_023.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2008/sr08_023.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="stamp">{{Cite web |title=OSU Celebrates Linus Pauling and Release of New U.S. Postal Service Stamp |url=http://oregonstate.edu/events/stamp/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102050729/http://oregonstate.edu/events/stamp/ |archive-date=November 2, 2013 |access-date=February 25, 2015 |website=Oregon State University β University Events}}</ref> His description reads: "A remarkably versatile scientist, structural chemist Linus Pauling (1901β1994) won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the nature of the chemical bond linking atoms into molecules. His work in establishing the field of molecular biology; his studies of hemoglobin led to the classification of sickle cell anemia as a molecular disease."<ref name=Strasser/> The other scientists on this sheet of stamps included [[Gerty Cori]], biochemist, [[Edwin Hubble]], astronomer, and [[John Bardeen]], physicist.<ref name="stamp" /> California Governor [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] and First Lady [[Maria Shriver]] announced on May 28, 2008, that Pauling would be inducted into the [[California Hall of Fame]], located at [[The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts]]. The induction ceremony took place December 15, 2008. Pauling's son Linus Jr. was asked to accept the honor in his place.<ref name="CA.gov">{{Cite web |title=Governor & First Lady Participate in 2008 CA Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony |url=http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=11255 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602035158/http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=11255 |archive-date=June 2, 2015 |access-date=June 1, 2015 |website=CA.gov}}</ref> By proclamation of Gov. [[John Kitzhaber]] in the state of Oregon, February 28 has been named "Linus Pauling Day".<ref name=Notebooks/> The Linus Pauling Institute still exists, but moved in 1996 from Palo Alto, California, to Corvallis, Oregon, where it is part of the Linus Pauling Science Center at [[Oregon State University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Linus Pauling Institute |url=http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/ |access-date=June 25, 2013 |publisher=Lpi.oregonstate.edu}}</ref><ref name="CGT2011">{{Cite news |last=Cole |first=Gail |date=October 14, 2011 |title=Linus Pauling Science Center opens at OSU |work=Corvallis Gazette-Times |url=http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/linus-pauling-science-center-opens-at-osu/article_4f5a422e-f63a-11e0-af55-001cc4c03286.html |access-date=June 2, 2015}}</ref><ref name="OSUFoundation">{{Cite web |title=Linus Pauling Science Center β A Moment to Celebrate |url=http://osufoundation.org/fundraisingpriorities/facilities/lpsc/landing.htm |access-date=June 2, 2015 |website=Oregon State University Foundation |archive-date=2015-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329075533/http://osufoundation.org/fundraisingpriorities/facilities/lpsc/landing.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[The Valley Library]] Special Collections at Oregon State University contain the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, including digitized versions of Pauling's forty-six research notebooks.<ref name="Notebooks">{{Cite web |title=Linus Pauling Research Notebooks Online |url=http://naturalscience.com/ns/news/news40.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905114549/http://naturalscience.com/ns/news/news40.html |archive-date=September 5, 2015 |access-date=June 1, 2015 |website=Natural Science }}</ref> In 1986, Caltech commemorated Linus Pauling with a symposium and lectureship.<ref name="Zewail">{{Cite book |last=Zewail |first=Ahmed |author-link=Ahmed Zewail |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y3Y_4BjUj7gC&pg=PR13 |title=The Chemical Bond Structure and Dynamics |date=1992 |publisher=Elsevier Science |isbn=978-0-08-092669-8 |location=Burlington |access-date=June 1, 2015}}</ref> The Pauling Lecture series at Caltech began in 1989 with a lecture by Pauling himself. The Caltech Chemistry Department renamed room 22 of Gates Hall the Linus Pauling Lecture Hall, since Pauling spent so much time there.<ref name="Baum">{{Cite journal |last=Baum |first=Rudy |date=December 11, 1989 |title=Caltech launches Linus Pauling lecture series |journal=Chemical & Engineering News |volume=67 |issue=50 |pages=18β19 |doi=10.1021/cen-v067n050.p018a}}</ref> Other places named after Pauling include Pauling Street in Foothill Ranch, California;<ref name="Factory">{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Greg |date=March 20, 1996 |title=Pauling Road Address Fits New Vitamin Factory to a 'C' |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-03-20-fi-49317-story.html |access-date=June 2, 2015}}</ref> Linus Pauling Drive in Hercules, California; Linus and Ava Helen Pauling Hall at [[Soka University of America]] in Aliso Viejo, California;<ref name="Gottlieb">{{Cite news |last=Gottlieb |first=Jeff |date=August 19, 2001 |title=A New-View University |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-aug-19-me-35925-story.html |access-date=June 1, 2015}}</ref> Linus Pauling Middle School in Corvallis, Oregon;<ref name="Woodward">{{Cite news |last=Woodward |first=Raju |date=February 29, 2012 |title=A son's tribute by Linus Pauling Jr. |work=Corvallis Gazette-Times |url=http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/a-son-s-tribute-by-linus-pauling-jr/article_9d0f7d7a-627f-11e1-84bb-001871e3ce6c.html |access-date=June 1, 2015}}</ref> and [[Condon State Airport|Pauling Field]], a small airfield located in Condon, Oregon, where Pauling spent his youth.<ref name="Airport">{{Cite news |date=October 19, 1988 |title=Scientist cites Condon years as influential |work=Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19881019&id=8_JVAAAAIBAJ&pg=5043,4737376&hl=en |access-date=June 1, 2015}}</ref> There is a psychedelic rock band in Houston, Texas, named [[The Linus Pauling Quartet]].<ref name="Heberlein">{{Cite book |last=Heberlein |first=L. A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5zV2XWD8q5sC&pg=PA81 |title=The Rough guide to internet radio |date=2002 |publisher=Rough Guides |isbn=978-1-85828-961-8 |location=London |access-date=June 1, 2015}}</ref> The asteroid [[4674 Pauling]] in the inner asteroid belt, discovered by [[Eleanor F. Helin]], was named after Linus Pauling in 1991, on his 90th birthday.<ref name="Schmadel">{{Cite book |last=Schmadel |first=Lutz D. |author-link=Lutz D. Schmadel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aeAg1X7afOoC&pg=PA380 |title=Dictionary of minor planet names |date=2012 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-642-29718-2 |edition=6th |location=Berlin |access-date=June 1, 2015}}</ref> [[Linus Torvalds]], developer of the [[Linux]] kernel, is named after Pauling.<ref name="moody">{{Cite book |last=Moody |first=Glyn |author-link=Glyn Moody |url=https://archive.org/details/rebelcodeinside000mood/page/336 |title=Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution |publisher=Perseus Books Group |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-7382-0670-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/rebelcodeinside000mood/page/336 336]}}</ref> Nobel laureate [[Peter Agre]] has said that Linus Pauling inspired him.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Agre |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Agre |date=December 10, 2013 |title=Fifty Years Ago: Linus Pauling and the Belated Nobel Peace Prize |url=https://www.sciencediplomacy.org/sites/default/files/fifty_years_ago-linus_pauling_and_the_belated_nobel_prize_science__diplomacy.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140213004929/https://www.sciencediplomacy.org/letter-field/2013/fifty-years-ago-linus-pauling-and-belated-nobel-peace-prize |archive-date=February 13, 2014 |journal=[[Science & Diplomacy]] |volume=2 |issue=4}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 2010, [[Pacific Northwest National Laboratory]] named its distinguished postdoctoral program in his honor, as the Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pnnl.gov/projects/linus-pauling-distinguished-postdoctoral-fellowship|title=Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship | PNNL|website=www.pnnl.gov}}</ref>
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