Linus C. Pauling
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Research Professor, Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, Palo Alto, California, 1973–94. Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University, California, 1969–74. Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1954; Nobel Prize for Peace, 1962. Author of The Nature of the Chemical Bond and others.
Primary Contributions (2)
American theoretical physical chemist Linus Carl Pauling (1901–94) is the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes. His first, a Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1954), was awarded for research into the nature of the chemical bond and its use in elucidating molecular structure; the second, a…
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