Research topic: Linus Carl Pauling

Linus Carl Pauling , 1901-94, American chemist, b. Portland, Oreg. He was one of the few recipients of two Nobel Prizes, winning the chemistry award in 1954 and the peace prize in 1962. His scientific career centered around the California Institute of Technology, where he received his doctorate in 1925 and became professor of chemistry in 1931 after a period of study abroad with Arnold Sommerfeld , Niels Bohr , and Erwin Schrödinger . He was among the first to apply the quantum theory to calculations of molecular structures; his book The Nature of the Chemical Bond (1939... Read more