| When you have a man who can easily be held up | | | | concepts like electronegativity and an advanced study |
| next to names like Einstein and be considered in the | | | | on how atomic nuclei are composed, Pauling |
| same category in terms of their importance to science, | | | | completely changed the way we look at matter. |
| you know that you have someone who has been | | | | The field of medicine has also been changed |
| extremely important to the world. Linus Pauling trivia will | | | | drastically by Pauling's work , and his legacy lives on in |
| tell you that unlike Einstein, he was a chemist, rather | | | | a large way in medical research. A Linus Pauling quiz |
| than a physicist, but he still ranks as among the most | | | | would inform you that his discoveries led towards the |
| important contributors to the sciences in the twentieth | | | | identification of molecular diseases, and the Linus |
| century. | | | | Pauling institute now employees a dozen scientists |
| To understand how significant he was, look at some | | | | who are investigating how micronutrients and |
| statistics which might show up on a Linus Pauling quiz | | | | phytochemicals have roles to play in both prolonging |
| regarding his winning of the Nobel peace prize. Only | | | | health and curing and treating disease. |
| two people have ever won two of those awards in | | | | Pauling won the Peace prize in addition to the |
| different categories. Pauling won one for chemistry, | | | | Chemistry prize, and this was due to his campaigning |
| and the other for peace. The only other person to win | | | | against above ground testing of nuclear weapons. |
| two prizes in different categories was Marie Curie, | | | | During WW II he was working in weapons |
| who also had one in chemistry, the other in physics. | | | | development. He had been invited to participate on the |
| Altogether there are only four people that have won | | | | Manhattan project, but declined, instead devoting |
| multiple Nobels, Pauling being one of them. | | | | himself to other military applications. After the war |
| The advances that Pauling made to chemistry are | | | | however, he became devoted to the same pacifist |
| extremely important, contributing to everything to the | | | | philosophy followed by his wife and from the |
| way that high school chemistry is taught to the most | | | | perspective of both a scientist and a pacifist devoted |
| advanced scientists in the world understanding how | | | | much energy and time to convincing people of the |
| the building blocks of matter are put together. With | | | | danger of nuclear weapons and their fallout. |