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 remembered by ...

the greatest and most original scientist--especially in chemistry--in the 20th century," says Norman Davidson, a professor, emeritus, of biology and chemistry at the California Institute of Technology ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Nobel laureate, who has retired as director of the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif., and is ...

1911), American scientist Linus Pauling (1954, 1962), American physicist and electrical engineer John Bardeen (1956, 1972), British biochemist Frederick Sanger (1958, 1980), and American ...