Linus Pauling was an American peace activist, chemist, author, professor, and biochemist. He was also a well respected man and defender of civil liberties and health issues. For this, he was often considered as the founding father of molecular biology and as one of the greatest scientists and humanitarians.
Linus Carl Pauling was born on February 28, 1901, in Portland, Oregon, to Lucy Isabelle Darling and Herman Henry William Pauling. He is the oldest of three siblings, Lucile and Pauline. In September of 1906, Linus started attending at a local school in Condon, Oregon, and then went to Washington High School in Portland but did not receive his diploma until 1962 because of a technicality. He later attended Oregon State College in 1922 and
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He was first appointed as an assistant professor of chemistry in 1927 but then made a full time professor. During his career, he was also a peace activist, protesting that nuclear weapons should be avoided during wars. He thought this because he had theories that radioactive fallout would increase cancer risk, genetic disorders, and possibly birth defects. While he did these things, he also wrote books about his thoughts, theories, and discoveries. A few discoveries that he mentioned in his books included genetic diseases, nutritional therapy, and biomedicine.
When Linus demonstrated his work on the nature of the chemical bond and structures of molecules, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences were impressed, and in 1956, Linus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Not to mention, he also won the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize for alerting people of the dangerous effects of nuclear weapons, which was given to him in 1963 after some debate.
During his final years, Linus decided to reside at his ranch. He continued writing and publishing articles about health issues, his career in science, and his peace activist works. After numerous honors and accomplishments, Linus was put to rest on August 19, 1994, and was remembered as the founding father of molecular
After graduating from Mercer University, he proceeded to John Hopkins where his interest was to teach mathematics or sciences.... ... middle of paper ... ... He however maintained his moral values since he believed that good morals were the answer to the problems encountered by education and the society (Beyer, 1997). “The core problem facing our schools is a moral one.
Lindbergh was born on February 4, 1902 and spent most of his childhood in Little Falls, Minnesota. He was a son of an attorney and congressman. His character traits for which he was known for the rest of his life were being reserved and withdrawn. In 1912, his mother took him to an air race, he loved it so much he decided that’s what he wanted to do. In April of 1922 he moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and enrolled in a local flight school. Shortly after he joined, the school shut down.
possibility of atomic bombs. In 1941, he was brought into the atomic bomb project and was
...s used to make fertilizer. Many household cleaning products also contain ammonia because it gives the surface a fine and fair shine. Ammonia synthesis was used to produce explosives in World War 1 and it was later used on the development of the deadly poison gas. Therefore there were many skeptical controversies about his winning of the Nobel awards because of the mass number of casualties due to chemical weapons.
We know that he had a fascination with the stars that lead to some very important discoveries many years ago. What we don’t know is how those discoveries affected his life. In The Earth Moves by Dan Hofstadter we learn a little bit more about this great man and what happened during the inquisition of his work.
I hope I have answered the question “What was his personal life like?” good in here and would like to summarize by saying that he was able to overcome all odds to become a famous inventor that even had a movie made by him. I would also like to say that He made many, many products that we still use all from simple plants like peanuts in summary to the answer of the question “What did he actually do?”. He also had many hobbies that ended up in helping many people (“What did he like to do when he wasn’t working?”). I have found that this man that I knew nothing about before the report is one of the few real life people I know of that overcame so many things in his life that almost no one even knows
Frederick Sanger, was a British biochemist, born in Rendcombe, England, on August 13, 1918. His contributions to science and the world of biochemistry were groundbreaking and revolutionary, and set the foundation for modern biology. Because of this he was given many prestigious awards, including two nobel prizes (one of only four to achieve such a milestone). But before doing all this, he was just the son of a medical practitioner, Frederick Sanger Sr., M.D., and Cicely Sanger. His family was relatively wealthy and practiced a Quaker faith, which made him a peaceful, imaginative, modest man. He expressed his peaceful nature throughout his life, by strongly objecting World War II, and having a peaceful personality in general. Being born to a
After graduation, he worked as a teacher at Berkeley for only a year. In 1942, he received citizenship for the United States since he was originally born in Canada. Throughout his career, he has worked as a professor in various universities. He taught at places such as Cornell University, University of Chicago, and Stanford University. Two times he was the chairman of the Chemistry Department in 1972 to 1974 and 1978 to 1979. He was also in the National Defense Research Committee while World War II was taking place.
Justus Erich Walbaum was a very famous German type founder and punchcutter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. By simply starting his life off making confectioners molds, Justus Walbaum was later able to designed two of his most famous typefaces, Walbaum. and Walbaum Fraktur. Born in 1768, Justus Walbaum grew up the district of Haverlah called Steinlah, which is known more commonly as modern Lower Saxony. Unlike many Renaissance graphic artists who began their careers by engraving weapons, as a young boy Walbaum was an apprentice to a confectioner, his main job being engraving confectioner’s molds for several types of candy and other sweets. This job was eventually his gate way into cutting type punches and type-founder’s tools.
Richard P. Feynman was born in 1918 in Brooklyn; in 1942 he received his Ph.D. from Princeton. Already displaying his brilliance, Feynman played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb through his work in the Manhattan Project. In 1945 he became a physics teacher at Cornell University, and in 1950 he became a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He, along with Sin-Itero and Julian Schwinger, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work in the field of quantum electrodynamics.
What separates comics from graphic novels? Up until the late 1970s, early 1990s, the term graphic novel did not exist (“Graphic Novel”). Alan Moore took fame in this industry; in fact, many would say he had defined it. Moore is one of the first pioneers of the growing market for graphic novels. Moore’s life held many attributions to his most popular work.
Paul Ehrlich was born on March 14, 1854 in Strehlen Prussia. He was the son of a prosperous Jewish family. Ismar Ehrlich and Rosa (Weigert) Ehrlich, Paul's parents, were both from scientific backgrounds. It was not surprising that he had an attraction to the realm of science. Paul Ehrlich looked up to his cousin Karl Weigert. Paul began primary school at St. Maria Magdalena Humanistic Gymnasium at the age of six. He graduated at in 1872. After his graduation, he attended the University of Breslau for a semester then transferred to the University of Strassburg. With help
Major Scientist- Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907)- Mendeleev was born in 1834. He graduated from St. Petersburg prior to moving to Heidelberg to make his own lab. He then returned to St. Petersburg and become a professor. In 1860, he began his work on the periodic table. He organized the elements by their atomic mass. When he saw a gap in the table he left space, predicting new elements would be discovered. Due to this important table, Mendeleev was awarded the Davy and Copley medal of the Royal Society.
Herman stopped teaching Watson after going through a divorce with his wife, and sent Watson off to a scientific conference in Naples. Although he was bored by many of the lectures, Maurice Wilkins’s talk about X-ray diffraction fascinated Watson. He was struck by an X-ray diffraction picture of DNA that Maurice presented and was determined to study the acid. He later got to know more about Maurice’s colleague, Rosalind Franklin, who was proud, stubborn, and very difficult to work with. Watson greatly admired the lecture given by the renowned Linus Pauling, who had discovered the structure of the alpha-helix and was thought of as the leader in DNA research in the scientific world.
Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this mans work, everyone knows that his impact on the world is astonishing.