James Holmes Sturdivant (1906–1972) was a chemist who worked for several years as the main research assistant to Linus Pauling at Caltech, starting in 1927.
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] He co-authored some seminal papers with Pauling,[8][9][10][11] and was co-advisor of Robert Eugene Rundle.
[9] Among many other projects, Sturdivant helped Pauling to develop a device to measure the concentration of oxygen in gases.
[10] The patent for the device was assigned to the two and to Reuben Wood, and was donated to the on condition that the authors receive a fraction of any revenue coming from it.
[14] As manager of the Caltech instrument shop, Sturdivant helped Pauling and Corey build their prototypes of the space-filling molecular models.