Award Year
1998
Graduation Year
1922
Department
Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Award Category
Engineering Hall of Fame
Biography
Linus Pauling is the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes. He taught at Caltech for over 40 years later founding the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in Palo Alto. The Institute was established at OSU in 1996. He won his first Nobel Prize in 1954 for his research on the nature of the chemical bond in molecules and its use in understanding the structure of such complex substances as proteins and antibodies. He received the 1962 Nobel Peace prize for his activities that resulted in the ban on nuclear testing in the atmos-phere. A scientist with many interests, Dr. Pauling was an ardent proponent of megadoses of vitamin C as a preventative treatment for cancer and the common cold.
Degrees
- B.S. Chemical Engineering, 1922