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Pauling, Linus Carl (1901-1994)

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Place: United States of America Subject : biography, chemistry US theoretical chemist and biologist whose achievements ranked among the most important of any in 20th-century science. His main contribution was to molecular structure and chemical bonding. He was one of the very few people to have been awarded two Nobel Prizes: he received the 1954 Nobel Prize for Chemistry (for his work on intermolecular forces) and the 1962 Peace Prize. Throughout his career his work was noted for the application of intuition and inspiration, assisted by his phenomenal memory; he often carried over principles from one field of science and applied them to another. Pauling was born in Portland, Oregon, on 28 February 1901, the son of a pharmacist. He began his scientific studies at Oregon State Agricultural College, from which he graduated in chemical engineering in 1922. He then began his research at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, gaining his PhD in 1925. From 1925 to 1927 he was a…
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chemist, peace activist, and Nobel laureate Born to an Oregon family of modest means, Pauling's early readings included the pharmacopoeia and dispensatory of his pharmacist father, who died when Pauling was a young boy. Pauling attended Oregon Agricultural College in Corvallis. Pauling's knowledge…
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Place: United States of America Subject : biography, chemistry US theoretical chemist and biologist whose achievements ranked among the most important of any in 20th-century science. His main contribution was to molecular structure and chemical bonding. He was one of the very few people to have been…
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(b. 1894–d. 1976) mathematician, chemist Bridging barriers between scientific disciplines, Dorothy Wrinch helped to found molecular biology with her mathematics-based theory about the structure of protein molecules. She was born on September 12, 1894, in Rosario, Argentina, to British engineer…
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The first person to be awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes was the American chemist Linus Pauling. He won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1954 for his work on chemical bonds and molecular structure. The Nobel peace prize was given to him in 1962 for his campaign to stop the testing of nuclear…
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(b. 1901–d. 1994) chemist, disarmament activist Linus Carl Pauling is considered by many to have been the greatest chemist of the 20th century. His research concerning the nature of chemical bonds in molecules and his ability to show how those bonds affect the operation of complex molecules in…
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(b. 1901–d. 1994) Linus Carl Pauling was born in Portland, Oregon, on February 28, 1901, to druggist Herman Henry William Pauling and Lucy Isabelle Darling. He attended the public elementary and high schools in the town of Condon and in Portland, Oregon, and entered the Oregon State College in 1917. …
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(born Feb. 28, 1901, Portland, Ore., U.S.—died Aug. 19, 1994, Big Sur, Calif.) U.S. chemist. He received his doctorate from the California Institute of Technology and became a professor there in 1931. He was one of the first researchers to apply quantum mechanics to the study of molecular…
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