LINUS PAULING, 93, TWO-TIME WINNER OF NOBEL PRIZE; VITAMIN C ADVOCATE
Author: Associated Press
Date: Sunday, August 21, 1994
Page: 47
Section: OBITUARY
BIG SUR, Calif. -- Two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, whose
advocacy of large doses of vitamin C to stave off diseases was popular with
the public but drew skepticism from fellow scientists, died Friday in his
ranch at Big Sur. He was 93.
Mr. Pauling was the only winner of two unshared Nobel Prizes. He won the
Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1954 for his research on the nature of the
chemical bond holding molecules together and its use in understanding the
structure of complex substances such as protein and antibodies.
After the development of the atomic bomb, Mr. Pauling campaigned against
nuclear weapons. In 1958, he presented the United Nations with a petition for
nuclear disarmament signed by Albert Schweitzer, Bertrand Russell, Albert
Einstein and 11,000 scientists and Nobel laureates.
On Oct. 10, 1963, the date when the US-Soviet test ban treaty went into
effect, he was awarded the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.
Mr. Pauling published several books and more than 1,000 scientific
papers. But he was probably best known in the past two decades for his
belief that large doses of ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, could extend a
person's life by decades and ward off colds, cancer and cardiovascular
disease.
Mr. Pauling's 1970 book, "Vitamin C and the Common Cold," persuaded many
Americans to gulp large doses. Mr. Pauling himself took 18,000 milligrams of
vitamin C a day; the recommended daily allowance for adults is 60 milligrams.
He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in December 1991.
Mr. Pauling, who was born in Portland, Ore., on Feb. 28, 1901, graduated
in 1922 from Oregon State University, then called Oregon Agricultural College.
He received his doctorate in 1925 from the California Institute of
Technology and remained on its teaching staff until 1963. He was a chemistry
professor at Stanford University from 1969 to 1973.
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