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Article: Pauling, Linus
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Pauling, Linus
AMERICAN CHEMIST
1901
–
1994
Linus Carl Pauling was born in Portland, Oregon, on February 28, 1901, the first of three children of pharmacist Herman W. Pauling and Lucy Isabelle Pauling (n
é
e Darling). An internationally acclaimed scientist, educator, humanitarian, and political activist, the only person to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes (for chemistry in 1954; for peace in 1962), Pauling was once characterized by
New Scientist
as one of the twenty greatest scientists of all time, on a par with Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein. His magnum opus,
The Nature of the Chemical Bond
(1939), was one of the most influential and frequently cited ...