Pauling Centenary to recognize scientist, humanitarian
...ling Month in Oregon.A website with information on centenary events, a Pauling chronology, multimedia presentations of biographical and scientific events in Paulings life, and links to the catalogue of the Pauling papers can be found at http://pauling.library.orst.edu . After earning his doctorate in chemistr...UC Berkeley museum biologists to repeat 85-year-old Yosemite National Park wildlife survey
...hat, it was really clear what we had to do for our centenary - do what Grinnell told us to do and resurvey his transects." While the earlier biologists used shotguns, leg-hold traps and snap traps to do much of their surveying and collecting, the current team will capture and release most of the animals. Bird...Marie Curie Nobel Centennial Celebration of Women in Science
...r of the Challenges panel. "Our celebration of the centenary of Marie Curie's first Nobel Prize recognizes the extraordinary progress in the fields to which she contributed, as well as the growing participation of women in the physical and biological sciences." This symposium emphasizes and celebrates the acc...