| Authorised form of name | Pauling; Linus Carl (1901 - 1994) |
| Dates | 1901 - 1994 |
| Date of birth | 28/02/1901 |
| Date of death | 19/08/1994 |
| Activity | Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1954; Nobel Prize (Peace) 1962 |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 27/05/1948 |
| Age at election | 47 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1947 |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1996 vol 42 pp 315-338, plate, by Jack D Dunitz
References:
Digitized papers available at http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/MM/ |
| Code | NA1929 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1948/30 | Pauling, Linus Carl: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| HWT/42 | Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine | 1974-1981 |
| RR/71/228 | Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'A resonating-valence-bond theory of metals and intermetallic compounds' by Linus Carl Pauling | 17 August 1948 |
| RR/71/229 | Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'A resonating-valence-bond theory of metals and intermetallic compounds' by Linus Carl Pauling | 1948 |