| Linus Pauling  AKA Linus Carl Pauling
Born: 28-Feb-1901
Birthplace: Portland, OR
Died: 19-Aug-1994
Location of death: Big Sur, CA
Cause of death: Cancer - Prostate
Remains: Buried, Oswego Pioneer Cemetery, Lake Oswego, OR
Gender: Male
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Reformed the science of chemistry Was raised Lutheran, but converted to atheism as an adult. Father: Herman Henry William Pauling (druggist, b. Missouri)
Mother: Lucy Isabelle Darling (b. Oregon)
Wife: Ava Helen Miller (b. Beaver Creek OR, m. 1923)
Son: Linus Carl Pauling, Jr. (b. 1925)
Son: Peter Jeffress Pauling (b. 1931)
Daughter: Linda Helen Pauling (b. 1932)
Son: Edward Crellin Pauling (b. 1937)
University: Oregon State College (1922)
University: PhD Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (1925)
Professor: California Institute of Technology (1929-67)
Professor: University of California at San Diego (1967-69)
Professor: Stanford University (1969-71)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1954
Nobel Peace Prize 1962
Davy Medal 1947
Humanist of the Year 1961
Lenin Peace Prize 1967
Priestley Medal 1984
Vannevar Bush Award 1989
Guggenheim Fellowship 1926-27
National Medal of Science
Academy of Achievement (1979)
American Chemical Society President (1949)
American Philosophical Society 1936
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Risk Factors: Prostate Cancer
Is the subject of books:
Force of Nature, 1995, BY: Thomas Hager
Linus Pauling, A Life in Science and Politics, 1995, BY: Ted Goertzel and Ben Goertzel
Author of books:
Vitamin C and the Common Cold (1970)
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