Linus Pauling
- Prize
- Nobel Peace Prize — 1962for his fight against the nuclear arms race between East and West
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1954for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances
- Citizenship
United States- Languages
- English, Esperanto
- date of birth
- 2/28/1901
- place of birth
- Portland
- date of death
- 8/19/1994
- place of death
- Big Sur
- Lived
- 93 years
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- occupation
- biophysicist
- crystallographer
- university teacher
- peace activist
- physicist
- activist shareholder
- biochemist
- chemist
- Esperantist
- field of work
- physical chemistry
- quantum chemistry
- biochemistry
- educated at
- California Institute of Technology
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- academic major: physical chemistry
- academic major: mathematical physics
- end time: 1925
- doctoral advisor: Roscoe G. Dickinson
- Oregon State University
- academic degree: Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
- start time: September 1917
- end time: June 1922
- California Institute of Technology
- employer
- California Institute of Technology
- start time: 1927
- end time: 1963
- Linus Pauling Institute
- Stanford University
- start time: 1969
- end time: 1975
- University of California, San Diego
- start time: 1967
- end time: 1969
- Oregon State University
- California Institute of Technology
- position held
- professor
- start time: 1969
- end time: 1974
- professor
- work location
- Palo Alto
- start time: 1969
- end time: 1974
- Palo Alto
- member of
- Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 5/27/1948
- French Academy of Sciences
- International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
- Academy of Sciences of the USSR
- start time: 6/20/1958
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1933
- Académie Nationale de Médecine
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- start time: 10/13/1959
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1936
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- doctoral student
- Max Tofield Rogers
- David Powell Shoemaker
- George Alexander Feigen
- Joseph Kraut
- Phillip Alfred Vaughan
- Edwin Nichols Lassettre
- John Y. Beach
- James D. McCullough
- William Lipscomb
- Ralph R. Hultgren
- Gary Felsenfeld
- Kurt Mislow
- Matthew Meselson
- Lawrence O. Brockway
- Harvey Itano
- Barclay Kamb
- Edgar Bright Wilson
- David Harker
- Leonard Lerman
- James Lynn Hoard
- Robert E. Rundle
- Arthur Pardee
- Martin Karplus
- Tang Youqi
- James Holmes Sturdivant