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 ...

Happy birthday, Linus Pauling! 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 ...

There have been only five scientists who have won two Nobel Prizes – Polish-French physicist and chemist Marie Curie (1903, 1911), American scientist Linus Pauling (1954, 1962), American ...

This vital theoretical concept in chemistry, first introduced by American chemist Linus ... Yet Pauling's scale is the first and the most common one, present in every chemistry textbook. Watch an ...