Milestones in a Nobel Life
1922
Graduates from Oregon Agricultural College
1925
Receives Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech
1932
Meets Albert Einstein, who attends Pauling’s seminar on quantum mechanics of chemical bond
1939
Publishes The Nature of the Chemical Bond, which becomes “most cited book in scientific literature”
1946
At Einstein’s request, helps form Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists
1954
Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry, presented by King Gustav Adolph VI of Sweden
1958
Presents 9,000-signature petition to halt nuclear testing to Dag Hammarskjöld at UN
Debates head of Atomic Energy Commission on Edward R. Murrow’s See It Now
1960
Appears before senate subcommittee on internal security; refuses to name fellow petition circulators
1961
Appears on Time magazine cover with “Men of the Year”
1962
Visits White House to protest nuclear testing and dine with JFK
1963
Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for 1962 in Norway
1970
Publishes Vitamin C and the Common Cold, a best seller
1973
Appointed director of Laboratory of Orthomolecular Medicine, which is renamed the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in 1974
1986
Publishes How to Live Longer and Feel Better, a New York Times best-seller
Announces gift to OSU of all his papers
1994
Dies at Big Sur, California
