Chemistry Crystallizes Into Modern Science

摘要

Linus C. Pauling was a graduate stu-dent at California Institute of Tech-nology in 1923, the year C&EN was born as the News Edition of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. That year, he published his first paper, a report on the X-ray crystal structure of the mineral molybdenite in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. At the University of Illinois, Roger Adams was exploring the use of platinum oxide as a catalyst to reduce organic compounds. He and his students meticulously characterized their products through melting and boiling points and elemental analysis and by making derivatives.