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 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 ...

This vital theoretical concept in chemistry, first introduced by American chemist Linus Pauling in 1932 as ‘the power of an atom in a molecule to attract electrons to itself’, has played a significant ...