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 ...

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 ...

Linus Pauling is the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes: for chemistry (in 1954) and peace (in 1962).

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 ...

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