When Linus Pauling was awarded the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize, it was the end of a decade-longworld widecampaign he waged against atmospheric testing of nuclear bombs. President Kennedy and Kruschev had finally agreed that there would be no further atmospheric testing. Reflecting popular American opinion, Life Magazine wrote: "Norway's Weird Insult to America!" (The Peace Prize is always awarded in Norway.) Pauling, who was most likely the 20th century's most brilliant mind in chemistry, also won the 1954 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his extensive and startlingly original work to explain chemical bonding. And he is the only person in the history of Nobel Prizes to win two unshared prizes. It wasn't until he left after more than 40 years of brilliant research and teaching at the California Institute of Technology that he began to promote the use of vitamin C, particularly for the prevention and treatment of colds. Almost all doctors were against it. Today it is a different story.
On Monday, April 30, at 11 a.m., Dr. Kip Anastasiou will speak about life of Linus Pauling, the vitamin C man.
