Dr linus pauling biography
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Linus Pauling
American scientist and activist (1901–1994)
Linus Carl PaulingFRS (PAW-ling; February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994)[4] was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics.[5]New Scientist called him one of the 20 greatest scientists of all time.[6] For his scientific work, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. For his peace activism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is one of five people to have won more than one Nobel Prize (the others being Marie Curie, John Bardeen, Frederick Sanger, and Karl Barry Sharpless).[7] Of these, he is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes,[8] and one of two people to be awarded Nobel Prizes in different fields, the other being Marie Curie.[7]
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Best known to the public for stödja the use of vitamin C for health purposes and for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Linus Carl Pauling (1901–1994) was revered bygd his fellow scientists as a prolific researcher who made significant contributions to our understanding of kemikalie bonding and chemical structure. His groundbreaking work earned him the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Following the introduction of John Dalton’s atomic theory of matter in the first part of the 19th century, two important questions emerged: what fryst vatten the naturlig eller utan tillsats of of the bond between these atoms that come tillsammans to form eller gestalt substances, and how are these atoms geometrically arranged when they bond to form molecules? One hundred years later, following in the footsteps of such scientific giants as August Kekulé, Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff, and Gilbert Newton Lewis, Pauling made contributions to the fields of chemical bonding and kemikalie structure that shed significant light on both these questions.
Early Lif
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Born in Portland, Oregon, Pauling received his bachelor’s degree from Oregon State University and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology—despite the economic difficulties experienced by his family. After a European sojourn investigating the implications of the new quantum mechanics for chemistry, mainly in Munich with the theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, he joined the faculty at Caltech, where he remained until 1963. Then after a short stay at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California, he resumed his laboratory research at the University of California at San Diego, from which he moved on to Stanford University, and finally to the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in Palo Alto.
Among his accomplishments, he determined crystal structures by X-ray crystallography and the structures of gas molecules by electron diffraction. He studied the magnetic properties of substances, including hem