Linus Pauling is the only man to win two unshared Nobel Prizes--in two unrelated category. Awarded the Prize in Chemistry in 1954, he also won the Peace Prize in 1962. Pauling made huge contributions ...

Linus Pauling was born in Portland on Feb. 28, 1901. He went on to win two Nobel prizes and is considered one of the greatest chemists of the 20th century. Nobel Laureate Dr. Linus Pauling in New ...

The self-taught chemist. Linus Pauling's lifelong fascination with chemistry was ignited during childhood by a friend's chemistry set. He was born on February 28, 1901, in Portland, Oregon ...

Pauling is the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes: for chemistry (in 1954) and peace (in 1962). He wrote 11 books, received 47 honorary degrees, and won more than 500 scientific awards ...

A protein molecule is composed of thousands of atoms. How are they arranged? Progress has been made toward answering the question for fibrous proteins such as hair, horn, fingernail and porcupine ...

Sophocles had it right, the Rolling Stones made a friendly amendment and Linus Pauling detailed the conceptual mechanism for finding novel materials that will define and revolutionize the future.

He died in 1994, at age 93, at his ranch in California. Linus Pauling speaking at the Portland City Club in 1962.Oregonian Each year on his birthday, Feb. 28, Oregon State celebrates with its ...

There have been only five scientists who have won two Nobel Prizes – Polish-French physicist and chemist Marie Curie (1903, 1911), American scientist Linus Pauling (1954, 1962), American ...