The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 43, October 26, 2003, Article 3

S.I.N. FOUNDER PAULINE PAULING EMMETT DIES

  Pauline Pauling Emmett, a founder of the Society of
  International Numismatics has died at 101.  From an
  obituary in the Oregonian newspaper of Portland, OR:

  "In the 1950s, Mrs. Emmett developed an interest in coins
  and operated her own coin shop in Santa Monica, Calif.,
  between 1960 and 1963. About that time, she also
  became a founder of the Society of International
  Numismatics."  Emmett was the sister of scientist Linus
  Pauling, who won the Nobel Prize in 1954.   Pauling also
  won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962, "in part for his protests
  against nuclear weapons." Ironically, Pauline married her
  brother's college friend Paul Emmett, who  "worked in the
  1940s on the Manhattan Project, which led to the
  development of the first atomic bomb."

  "It made for interesting conversation around the dinner table
  when Linus came to visit," said Mrs. Emmett's granddaughter."

  "Although she remained close to her famous brother all his
  life, she followed more creative outlets than scientific ones,
  said her daughter-in-law, Karla Ney. She enjoyed novels
  and was a seamstress, quilter and painter as well as a coin
  collector."

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/106682488783970.xml

  [Have any E-Sylum readers ever met Mrs. Emmett?  Can
  anyone tell us more about the Society of International
  Numismatics?"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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