Every year, the Oregon-born scientist and humanitarian is honored on his birthday at his alma mater, Oregon State University. Pauling, considered the father of molecular biology, is best ...

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, to a ...

Pauling made huge contributions to science in the 20th century, proposing structures for several different forms of proteins, based entirely on what he thought would be right. Later, experimental ...

Author of The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Recognized as the father of molecular biology. Discovered sickle cell anemia was a molecular disease, opening the way toward examining genetically acquired ...

and was completed by four scientists from Hokkaido University in Japan. It’s the culmination of a huge journey—in 1931, chemist Linus Pauling wrote in the Journal of the American Chemical ...