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Linus Pauling

Linus PaulingAKA 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
    Stalin 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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