Linus Pauling (1901-1994)

The science and humanisum of Linus Pauling (1901-1994) 

In the science establishment, Dr. Commoner’s standing was ambiguous. Along with eminent figures of the postwar years like the chemist Linus Pauling and the anthropologist Margaret Mead, he was concerned that the integrity of American science had been compromised — first by the government’s emphasis on supporting physics at the expense of other fields during the development of nuclear weapons, and second by the growing privatization of research, in which pure science took a back seat to projects that held short-range promise of marketable technologies.




“At about that time,” he continued, “several of us met with Linus Pauling in St. Louis and together drafted the petition, eventually signed by thousands of scientists worldwide.” The petition was part of the scientific underpinning for President John F. Kennedy’s proposal of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 — “the first of continuing international actions to fully cage the nuclear beast,” Dr. Commoner said.
  Linus Pauling (1901-1994)  他寫的《大學化學》，台灣有翻譯。
他主張大量服用高單位的維他命C治感冒等，有信徒
(比較2020.8.20：Honey may be a better treatment for coughs and colds than over-the-counter medicines, a new study has found )

Nobel Prize

 

Today we remember Linus Pauling, the only person to have been awarded two undivided Nobel Prizes.

Did you know that Pauling discovered the structure of the alpha-helix molecule when he folded a piece of paper? What's more - Pauling was a champion of peace and took a stand against nuclear weapons.

In 1954 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Eight years later he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1962 for his opposition to nuclear weapons.