Article: Linus Pauling, Nobel Winner, Vitamin C Advocate

BIG SUR, Calif. Two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus C. Pauling, a leader in the fight against nuclear weapons and an advocate of vitamin C to prevent cancer, the common cold and other diseases, died Friday. He was 93.

Mr. Pauling died at his ranch in the Big Sur area, according to the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in Palo Alto. He had been in frail health for several months, according to the institute.

He was the only person ever to win two unshared Nobel Prizes.

Mr. Pauling's career spanned more than six decades. He published several books and more than 1,000 scientific papers, continuing to put out about a dozen a year well into his 90s.

He won the Nobel Prize in ...

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