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Linus Pauling  

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  • Born on February 28, 1901, in Portland, Oregon, to Herman Henry William Pauling and Lucy Isabelle Darling, Linus Carl Pauling is the only person to ever win two unshared Nobel Prizes (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962). He was also the youngest member elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1933. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Pauling, Linus (1901–94)]

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