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Linus Pauling Research Paper

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In Portland, Oregon on February 28th, 1901, Linus Carl Pauling was born to Herman Henry William Pauling, a bread salesman and Lucy Isabelle Darling. His fascination with chemistry began when he was very young. He used to help friend and mentor Lloyd A. Jeffress, who owned a small laboratory kit. In high school, Pauling would steal scraps from from an abandoned steel plant to do experiments in secret. At the age of 15, Linus had enough credits to enter Oregon State, so he left Washington High School, without a diploma and entered college in 1917. Linus’ high school granted him his diploma 45 years later. During his first semester of his freshman year of college, Linus took two courses in chemistry, two in mathematics, mechanical drawing, introduction to mining and use of explosives, modern English prose, and gymnastics. He was very involved with campus life and he founded the school’s Delta Upsilon Fraternity. This fraternity is the seventh oldest and all male. Just after his sophomore year in …show more content…

Linus and his wife Ava, spent 58 years together and had four children and thirteen grandchildren. Linus Pauling is known to be one of the greatest, craziest and most accomplished scientists in the world. He has helped guide our country in incredible ways. We have him to thank for helping ban nuclear testing, for the incubator for children, his great additions to molecular structure of crystals, and his usage of X-ray diffraction, and his founding of ‘molecular disease’ which has inspired research work on many more such disorders and is the basis of today’s ‘human genome research’. In 2008, 41 cent stamp was released with his face on it, in his honor. Pauling’s quirky, passionate, and joyful personality made him not only a great contribution to science, but to humanity as well. “Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”- Linus

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