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Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling was an American chemist and peace activist. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. Scientific American called him one of the 20 greatest scientists of all time. For his scientific work, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. For his peace activism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is one…
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science · American scientist and activist (1901–1994) · chemist · physicist · Esperantist · university teacher · biochemist · peace activist · crystallographer · biophysicist · activist shareholder · also Linus Pauling, Linus Carl Pauling, Linus C. Pauling, Pauling
Born 28 February 1901 · Died 19 August 1994 · Q48983
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2026· 2 entries
Indiatimes: Quote of the day by two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling: The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas
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2025· 1 entry
Oregonian: Happy Linus Pauling Day! Why you should eat an orange to celebrate the Oregon-born scientist
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2024· 1 entry
The Scientist: In Tribute To Linus Pauling: A Citation Laureate
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2017· 1 entry
Scientific American: Stories by Linus Pauling
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2011· 1 entry
OPB: Linus Pauling
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2010· 1 entry
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory named its distinguished postdoctoral program in his honor, as the Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
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2008· 3 entries
Awarded California Hall of Fame (2008).
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That Pauling would be inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts
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The United States Postal Service released a 41 cent stamp honoring Pauling designed by artist Victor Stabin
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1996· 2 entries
From Palo Alto, California, to Corvallis, Oregon, where it is part of the Linus Pauling Science Center at Oregon State University
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A website was created expounding Pauling's treatment which it referred to as Pauling Therapy
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1995· 1 entry
“The Impact of Linus Pauling on Molecular Biology”
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1994· 3 entries
Died 1994-08-19.
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Pauling published numerous papers on his spheron cluster model
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“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.”
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded Tolman Award (1990).
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Pauling commented on his model:
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1989· 1 entry
With a lecture by Pauling himself
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education (1987).
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1986· 2 entries
Won Lavoisier Medal (1986).
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Caltech commemorated Linus Pauling with a symposium and lectureship
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1984· 1 entry
Won Priestley Medal (1984).
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1982· 1 entry
Found that the patient groups were not actually comparable, with the vitamin C group being less sick on entry to the study, and judged to be "terminal" much earlier than the comparison group
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (1979).
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1977· 1 entry
Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1977).
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1974· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1974).
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1971· 1 entry
On the use of intravenous and oral vitamin C as cancer therapy for terminal patients
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1969· 2 entries
Awarded Lenin Peace Prize (1969).
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Career landmark: professor (1969–1974).
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1968· 1 entry
Pauling published a brief paper in Science entitled "Orthomolecular psychiatry", giving a name to the popular but controversial megavitamin therapy movement of the 1970s, and advocating that "orthomolecular therapy, the
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1967· 2 entries
Won Roebling Medal (1967).
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Moved to the University of California at San Diego, but remained there only briefly, leaving in 1969 in part because of political tensions with the Reagan-era board of regents
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Linus Pauling Award (1966).
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1965· 4 entries
Pauling published his Close-Packed Spheron Model of the atomic nucleus in two well respected journals, Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1965).
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Pauling read Niacin Therapy in Psychiatry by Abram Hoffer and theorized vitamins might have important biochemical effects unrelated to their prevention of associated deficiency diseases
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Published “Evolutionary Divergence and Convergence in Proteins” in Evolving Genes and Proteins — cited 1,777 times.
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1963· 1 entry
Pauling sued the magazine, its publisher William Rusher, and its editor William F
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1962· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for his fight against the nuclear arms race between East and West.
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Awarded Gandhi Peace Award (1962).
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1962).
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1961· 2 entries
Awarded Humanist of the Year (1961).
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That above-ground nuclear testing posed significant public health risks in the form of radioactive fallout spread primarily via milk from cows that had ingested contaminated grass
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1960· 2 entries
Pauling and his wife were using a cabin about 80 miles (130 km) south of Monterey, California, and he decided to go for a walk on a coastal trail
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Was ordered to appear before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, which termed him "the number one scientific name in virtually every major activity of the Communist peace offensive in this country"
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1958· 4 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier (1958).
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Pauling and his wife presented a petition to United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld calling for an end to the testing of nuclear weapons
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Pauling published No more war
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The Caltech Board of Trustees demanded that Pauling step down as chairman of the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division
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1954· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1954).
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Shortly before the ceremony in Stockholm where he received his first Nobel Prize
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"for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances"
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1953· 1 entry
Watson and Crick proposed a correct structure for the DNA double helix
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1952· 2 entries
Pauling opened a new research notebook with the words "I have decided to attack the problem of the structure of nuclei
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When he was invited to speak at a scientific conference in London
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1951· 3 entries
Published “The structure of proteins: Two hydrogen-bonded helical configurations of the polypeptide chain” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 2,456 times.
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Pauling gave a lecture entitled "Molecular Medicine"
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Based on the structures of amino acids and peptides and the planar nature of the peptide bond, Pauling, Robert Corey and Herman Branson correctly proposed the alpha helix and beta sheet as the primary structural motifs i
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1949· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse (1949).
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Published “Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease” in Science — cited 1,627 times.
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Served as president of the American Chemical Society
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1948· 5 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1948).
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Awarded Liversidge Award (1948).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1948).
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Won Medal for Merit (1948).
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At the University of Oxford as George Eastman Visiting Professor and Fellow of Balliol
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1947· 3 entries
Awarded Silliman Memorial Lectures (1947).
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Won Davy Medal (1947).
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Published “Atomic Radii and Interatomic Distances in Metals” in Journal of the American Chemical Society — cited 1,803 times.
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1946· 4 entries
Awarded Willard Gibbs Award (1946).
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The group met to discuss academic freedom, during which Pauling said, "There is, of course, always a threat to academic freedom – as there is to the other aspects of the freedom and rights of the individual, in the conti
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Joined the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, chaired by Albert Einstein
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“There is, of course, always a threat to academic freedom – as there is to the other aspects of the freedom and rights of the individual, in the continued attacks which are made on this freedom, these rights, by the selfish, the overly ambitious, the misguided, the unscrupulous, who seek to oppress the great body of mankind in order that they themselves may profit – and we must always be on the alert against this threat, and must fight it with vigor when it becomes dangerous.”
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1942· 1 entry
Pauling successfully submitted a proposal on "The Chemical Treatment of Protein Solutions in the Attempt to Find a Substitute for Human Serum for Transfusions"
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1941· 2 entries
Won William H. Nichols Medal (1941).
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At age 40, Pauling was diagnosed with Bright's disease, a renal disease
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1940· 1 entry
Wanting an instrument that could reliably measure oxygen content in a mixture of gases, so that they could measure oxygen conditions in submarines and airplanes
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1939· 1 entry
The book was cited more than 16,000 times
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1937· 1 entry
To account for Astbury's observations quantum mechanically, he could not
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1936· 1 entry
Pauling was promoted to chairman of the division of chemistry and chemical engineering at Caltech, and to the position of director of the Gates and Crellin Laboratories of Chemistry
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1935· 1 entry
Published “The Structure and Entropy of Ice and of Other Crystals with Some Randomness of Atomic Arrangement” in Journal of the American Chemical Society — cited 1,611 times.
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1933· 1 entry
And including prestigious institutions like Cambridge University, Oxford University, Princeton University, Reed College, and Yale University
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1932· 1 entry
Published “THE NATURE OF THE CHEMICAL BOND. IV. THE ENERGY OF SINGLE BONDS AND THE RELATIVE ELECTRONEGATIVITY OF ATOMS” in Journal of the American Chemical Society — cited 1,720 times.
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1931· 3 entries
Awarded Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics (1931).
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Awarded ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1931).
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The American Chemical Society awarded Pauling the Langmuir Prize for the most significant work in pure science by a person 30 years of age or younger
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1929· 2 entries
Published “THE PRINCIPLES DETERMINING THE STRUCTURE OF COMPLEX IONIC CRYSTALS” in Journal of the American Chemical Society — cited 1,690 times.
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Pauling published five rules which help to predict and explain crystal structures of ionic compounds
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1927· 1 entry
Pauling took a new position as an assistant professor at Caltech in theoretical chemistry
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1926· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1926).
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Pauling was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to travel to Europe, to study under German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld in Munich, Danish physicist Niels Bohr in Copenhagen and Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in Zürich
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1925· 1 entry
Studied at California Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (1925).
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1922· 2 entries
Pauling graduated with a degree in chemical engineering
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Studied at Oregon State University, Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (1917–1922).
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1910· 1 entry
Leaving Lucy to care for Linus, Lucile and Pauline
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1904· 1 entry
Herman Pauling moved his family to Lake Oswego, Oregon where he opened his own drugstore
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1902· 1 entry
After his sister Pauline was born, Pauling's parents decided to move out of Portland to find more affordable and spacious living quarters than their one-room apartment
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1901· 2 entries
Born 1901-02-28.
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In Portland, Oregon, the firstborn child of Herman Henry William Pauling (1876–1910) and Lucy Isabelle "Belle" Darling (1881–1926)
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