Linus Pauling Dies: Only Dual Unshared Nobel Winner
Linus Pauling won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 for his work on chemical bonding. Then he started campaigning against nuclear weapons testing and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes. In his later years he became convinced that high doses of Vitamin C could cure cancer and prevent colds. The scientific consensus disagreed. He took 18,000 mg a day. He died at 93 of prostate cancer. The Vitamin C debate outlived him.
August 19, 1994
32 years ago
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