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Why did Linus Pauling move from the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions to the University of California at San Diego?
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Linus Pauling
Theoretical physical chemist Linus Pauling, photograph by Yousuf Karsh.
Linus Pauling moved from the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions to the University of California at San Diego in 1967 because he desired to perform more experimental research, which was not the primary focus of his work at the Center. While at the Center, he had successfully developed a new model of the atomic nucleus, but he sought to return to a more traditional research environment.1