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Linus Pauling
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As far as women are concerned, I am old-fashioned enough to like the idea of a woman's managing the household. This is an important activity.
— A Lifelong Quest for Peace (1992) by Linus Pauling and Daisaku Ikeda
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
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Lived 1901–1994, aged 93United States
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The only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes — one for mapping the chemical bond, one for trying to stop the bomb. A founder of quantum chemistry and molecular biology whose late-career vitamin crusade the scientific mainstream never bought.
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Born February 28, 1901, Pauling laid the groundwork for quantum chemistry and molecular biology, devising orbital hybridization and the first reliable electronegativity scale. His work on protein structure revealed the alpha helix and beta sheet, insights that steered Watson, Crick, Franklin, and Wilkins toward cracking DNA. In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Then he pivoted: he spent years campaigning for nuclear disarmament, earning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. Later he championed megavitamin therapy and orthomolecular medicine — claims about ascorbic acid that mainstream science…
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Linus Pauling
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I realized that more and more I was saying, "It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought to be given up.
— Interview at Big Sur, California (11 November 1990).
Linus Pauling
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I've been asked from time to time, "How does it happen that you have made so many discoveries?
— Interview at Big Sur, California (11 November 1990).
Linus Pauling
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The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
— Nobel Lecture for The Nobel Peace Prize 1962 (11 December 1963).
Linus Pauling
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Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences – and we cannot predict what they will be.
— Lecture at Yale University, "Chemical Achievement and Hope for the Future." (October 1947) Published in Science in Progress. Sixth Series.
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