What is Linus Pauling's middle name?
Carl
Carter
Carrey
Pick out the year in which Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry:
1953
1954
1857
Linus Pauling has received a total of two Nobel Prizes.
True
False
Apart from his Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Pauling received the __________ prize.
Nobel Prize for Literature
Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Prize for Physics
Linus Pauling is considered to be one of the founders of which of the following fields?
Quantum chemistry
Molecular biology
Both
Linus Pauling is also remembered to be a peace activist.
True
False
Pauling helped in developing the concept of ___________ in the theory of the chemical bond.
Orbit dislocation
Orbital hybridization
Orbital directioner
For Pauling's on the structures of biological molecules, he used methods such as ____________.
X-ray crystallography
Molecular model building
Both
Pauling began publishing papers on the nature of the _________ in the late 1920s.
Molecular proteins
Helix-structure
Chemical bonds
Linus Pauling received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances".
True
False
Pauling devised _______ rules for predicting and rationalizing the crystal structures of ionic compounds.
Three
Four
Five
According to Pauling's proposal, the DNA was in the shape of a _________.
Triple helix
Alpha helix
Beta sheet
The first disease that was understood at the molecular level due to the works of Linus Pauling, Harvey Itano, S. J. Singer and Ibert Wells is ____________.
Sickle cell anemia
Tuberculosis
Cholera
The first disease to be understood at the molecular level was discovered to be caused by an abnormal protein.
True
False
Pauling worked on research for the American military during _________.
World War I
World War II
Civil War
Linus Pauling designed the Pauling _______ measure oxygen conditions in submarines and airplanes.
Oxygen tracker
Oxygen check
Oxygen meter
Pauling decided to become a peace activist after the __________.
Battle of Okinawa
Manhattan Project
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Pauling joined the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists in the year _________.
1944
1945
1946
Was Linus Pauling one of the scientists and intellectuals who signed the Russell–Einstein Manifesto?
Yes
No
Linus Pauling was an active part of the Vietnamese war.
True
False