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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 was awarded to Linus Carl Pauling "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances"
Nobel Prize in Physics 1954 and Peace Nobel Prize in 1962. Linus Carl Pauling, often called the Einstein of chemistry, is certainly one of the greatest scientists of all time. At 31 he became the youngest person elected to the National Academy of Sciences and at 36 became head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Caltech.
Linus Pauling is a professor of chemistry; for thirty-nine years he has been on the staff of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, where he was made a professor in 1931. In addition to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry , his scientific achievements have won him many distinctions, medals, and honors, both in his own country and abroad.
Linus Pauling giving a lecture at the California Institute of Technology, 1957. Science History Institute. Born in Portland, Oregon, Pauling demonstrated an early interest in science by collecting laboratory equipment and conducting chemistry experiments in his childhood home. To earn money in high school, he spent his after-school hours ...
It was pointed out by the Soviet scientist O.I. Leipunsky in 1957 that this radioactive product of nuclear tests would cause more genetic damage to the human race than the radioactive fallout (cesium 137 and other fission products), if the human race survives over the 8,000-year mean life of carbon 14.
Watch a video clip of the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Linus Pauling, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony at the Auditorium of the University of Oslo, on 10 December 1963. (The Nobel Peace Prize was reserved in 1962, but awarded the next year.) MLA style: Linus Pauling – Prize presentation.
Feb 27, 2022 · Technically speaking, Linus Carl Pauling failed high school, even though he was ferociously smart. By the age of 15 – this would have been in 1916 – he had earned enough high school credits to ...
