Preview (20 questions)
1 Question
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What is Linus Pauling's middle name?


Carl

Carter

Carrey

2 Question
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Q.

Pick out the year in which Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry:


1953

1954

1857

3 Question
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Linus Pauling has received a total of two Nobel Prizes.


True

False

4 Question
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Apart from his Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Pauling received the __________ prize.


Nobel Prize for Literature

Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Prize for Physics

5 Question
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Linus Pauling is considered to be one of the founders of which of the following fields?


Quantum chemistry 

Molecular biology

Both

6 Question
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Linus Pauling is also remembered to be a peace activist.


True

False

7 Question
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Pauling helped in developing the concept of ___________ in the theory of the chemical bond.


Orbit dislocation

Orbital hybridization

Orbital directioner

8 Question
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For Pauling's on the structures of biological molecules, he used methods such as ____________.


X-ray crystallography 

Molecular model building

Both

9 Question
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Pauling began publishing papers on the nature of the _________ in the late 1920s.


Molecular proteins

Helix-structure

Chemical bonds

10 Question
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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

11 Question
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Pauling devised _______ rules for predicting and rationalizing the crystal structures of ionic compounds.


Three

Four

Five

12 Question
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According to Pauling's proposal, the DNA was in the shape of a _________.


Triple helix

Alpha helix

Beta sheet

13 Question
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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

14 Question
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The first disease to be understood at the molecular level was discovered to be caused by an abnormal protein.


True

False

15 Question
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Pauling worked on research for the American military during _________.


World War I

World War II

Civil War

16 Question
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Linus Pauling designed the Pauling _______ measure oxygen conditions in submarines and airplanes.


Oxygen tracker

Oxygen check

Oxygen meter

17 Question
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Pauling decided to become a peace activist after the __________.


Battle of Okinawa

Manhattan Project

Attack on Pearl Harbor

18 Question
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Pauling joined the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists in the year _________.


1944

1945

1946

19 Question
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Was Linus Pauling one of the scientists and intellectuals who signed the Russell–Einstein Manifesto?


Yes

No

20 Question
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Linus Pauling was an active part of the Vietnamese war.


True

False