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  • NAME: Linus Carl Pauling
  • OCCUPATION: Chemist
  • BIRTH DATE: February 28, 1901
  • DEATH DATE: August 19, 1994
  • EDUCATION: Oregon Agricultural College, California Institute of Technology, Institute for Theoretical Physics
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Portland, Oregon
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Big Sur, California
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Linus Pauling was a theoretical physical chemist who became the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes.

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Linus Pauling was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for Chemistry “for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances.” He was awarded another Nobel (1962) for peace, for his crusade to stop the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons, on October 10, 1963, the date that the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty went into effect.

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