As with many scientists, Linus Pauling utilized bound notebooks to keep track of the details of his research as it unfolded. A testament to the remarkable length and diversity of Dr. Pauling's career, the Pauling Papers holdings include forty-six research notebooks spanning the years of 1922 to 1994 and covering any number of the scientific fields in which Dr. Pauling involved himself. In this regard, the notebooks contain many of Pauling's laboratory calculations and experimental data, as well as scientific conclusions, ideas for further research and numerous autobiographical musings.

Research Notebook 01
1922
Research Notebook 02
1922-1923, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1973, 1985
Research Notebook 03
1923-1925
Research Notebook 04
1923-1924, 1928-1930
Research Notebook 05
1924, 1929, 1933, 1935
Research Notebook 06
1929-1930, 1934
Research Notebook 07
1930, 1932-1934, 1936
Research Notebook 08
1930-1931, 1933, 1935-1936
Research Notebook 09
1932, 1934-1938, 1940-1941
Research Notebook 10
1933-1934, 1936, 1938
Research Notebook 11
1930, 1937-1938
Research Notebook 12
1934-1935
Research Notebook 13
1935-1936, 1938-1939
Research Notebook 14
1936-1939, 1949, 1952
Research Notebook 15
1935, 1937, 1968
Research Notebook 16
1935-1956
Research Notebook 17
1939-1941, 1971, 1988
Research Notebook 18
1936, 1938, 1955, 1967-1969, 1971-1975, 1978
Research Notebook 19
1941-1942, 1944, 1949, 1955-1956, 1959-1960, 1965, 1967, 1976-1978, 1980-1981
Research Notebook 20
1950, 1955-1960
Research Notebook 21
1958
Research Notebook 22
1958
Research Notebook 23
1958-1965, 1968-1981
Research Notebook 24
1953, 1956, 1962, 1963, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973
Research Notebook 25
1958, 1964-1966
Research Notebook 26
1955, 1964-1969, 1974-1976, 1980-1982, 1987, 1990-1991
Research Notebook 27
1952-1954, 1960-1961, 1964, 1971-1972
Research Notebook 28
1951, 1953-1957, 1972-1975
Research Notebook 29
1957, 1986-1988
Research Notebook 30
1954-1958
Research Notebook 31
1966-1971, 1974-1976, 1980
Research Notebook 32
1965-1968, 1974
Research Notebook 33
1969, 1970-1971, 1976, 1978-1980
Research Notebook 34
1978-1979, 1986
Research Notebook 35
1978, 1981, 1983-1986
Research Notebook 35b
1938-1939, 1946, 1955, 1968, 1986-1988
Research Notebook 36
1980-1981, 1986-1987
Research Notebook 37
1971, 1983
Research Notebook 38
1980-1981, 1983, 1985, 1989
Research Notebook 39
1980-1981
Research Notebook 40
1988-1989
Research Notebook 41
1989-1990
Research Notebook 42
1990
Research Notebook 43
1990-1991
Research Notebook 44
1991-1994
Research Notebook 45
1980, 1982-1984
Research Notebook 46
1967-1972