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Article: Linus Pauling, Nobel Winner, Vitamin C Advocate
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 20, 1994
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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 ...