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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received his bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering. He received his Ph.D(Doctor of Philosophy) from the California Institute of Technology(Caltech) in 1925, and honorary degrees from universities in seven countries. After graduation, Linus was admitted to the Caltech administration group.
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
biology. Because of Linus, he has opened our eyes to the new discoveries that we, the future generation, are to investigate and change the world. He was a chemistry professor with lots of dedication and opened up chemistry education, which of course is a student’s decision to choose. A full time chemistry professor requires an advanced education, especially if a person decides to teach at a high level university. They must have completed high school and earned a degree in chemistry science when graduating from college. Just like I mentioned earlier, Linus has opened new ways of education and of course, the world has many jobs that are involved with chemistry. An average salary of a person with the position of a chemistry professor earns approximately $81,460 but can range between $60,000 to $150,000, depending on how much education you received or how high leveled the college you work for is. In conclusion, Linus Pauling was a great scientist who changed the world with his discoveries and accomplishments. Without him, our education system would be different, our world peace would be destroyed, and possibly could have an effect on our society. With thanks to Linus, he was one scientist to be remembered.
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
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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.
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