About Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling was an American chemist and peace activist. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. Scientific American called him one of the 20 greatest scientists of all time. 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. Of these, he is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes, and one of two people to be awarded Nobel Prizes in different fields, the other being Marie Curie.
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Awards & Honors
Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Davy Medal
Lenin Peace Prize
National Medal of Science
Priestley Medal
Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics
Willard Gibbs Award
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NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
Chemical Pioneer Award
Medal for Merit
Guggenheim Fellowship
Lomonosov Gold Medal
ACS Award in Pure Chemistry
Roebling Medal
Gandhi Peace Award
Linus Pauling Award
California Hall of Fame
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Lavoisier Medal
Silliman Memorial Lectures
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Tolman Award
Liversidge Award
Humanist of the Year
William H. Nichols Medal
George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education
Fellow of the American Physical Society
honorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse
doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
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