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Linus Pauling

A Life In Science And Politics

By: Ted Goertzel

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Paperback | 8 November 1996 | Edition Number 1

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One of the few unquestioned greats of twentieth-century science, Linus Pauling was the only person to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes, one in chemistry, for deciphering the quantum physics of large molecules, and one in peace, for helping to end nuclear bomb testing. His brilliance was allied with a certain stubbornness, and when he died in 1994, at the age of 93, he was embroiled in controversy regarding his advocacy of vitamin C as a treatment for cancer. Based on thirty years of interviews, this masterful biography is filled with insights into the life and work of this complex, fascinating man.

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Non-Fiction Biographies & True Stories Biographies Science, Technology & Medicine Biographies Science Chemistry Science in General History of Science Miscellaneous Items Physics Nuclear Physics

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. xiii
End of Childhood, 1901-1913	p. 1
Dropout of the Class of '17, 1913-1922	p. 21
Hidden Patterns, 1922-1925	p. 35
An Extraordinarily Productive Scientific Kopf, 1926-1935	p. 61
Proteins, Politics, and Passports, 1935-1954	p. 85
Fallout, 1954-1960	p. 133
A Consistent Pro-Soviet Bias, 1960-1966	p. 158
Orthomolecular Medicine, 1966-1990	p. 192
Alone at Big Sur, 1991-1994	p. 238
Appendix: Patterns in Ink	p. 255
Notes	p. 277
Selected References	p. 283
Index	p. 287
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