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
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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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- educated at
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- California Institute of Technology
- academic major: mathematical physics
- doctoral advisor: Roscoe G. Dickinson
- academic major: physical chemistry
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- end time: 1925
- Oregon State University
- academic degree: Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
- end time: June 1922
- start time: September 1917
- California Institute of Technology
- position held
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- professor
- end time: 1974
- start time: 1969
- professor
- employer
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- University of California, San Diego
- start time: 1967
- end time: 1969
- Stanford University
- end time: 1975
- start time: 1969
- California Institute of Technology
- end time: 1963
- start time: 1927
- Linus Pauling Institute
- Oregon State University
- University of California, San Diego
- work location
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- Palo Alto
- end time: 1974
- start time: 1969
- Palo Alto
- member of
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- Academy of Sciences of the USSR
- start time: 6/20/1958
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- start time: 10/13/1959
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1933
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1936
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 5/27/1948
- Royal Society of Edinburgh
- French Academy of Sciences
- International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
- Académie Nationale de Médecine
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Academy of Sciences of the USSR
- doctoral student
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- Tang Youqi
- Barclay Kamb
- Joseph Kraut
- James D. McCullough
- George Alexander Feigen
- David Powell Shoemaker
- Max Tofield Rogers
- Edwin Nichols Lassettre
- John Y. Beach
- Phillip Alfred Vaughan
- Robert E. Rundle
- Martin Karplus
- William Lipscomb
- Harvey Itano
- James Holmes Sturdivant
- Gary Felsenfeld
- Matthew Meselson
- Edgar Bright Wilson
- David Harker
- Kurt Mislow
- Leonard Lerman
- Arthur Pardee
- James Lynn Hoard
- Lawrence O. Brockway
- Ralph R. Hultgren
- field of work
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- physical chemistry
- biochemistry
- quantum chemistry
- occupation
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- physicist
- chemist
- university teacher
- biochemist
- Esperantist
- biophysicist
- crystallographer
- peace activist
- activist shareholder