U.S. chemists last week placed $1,000 on Professor Linus Carl Pauling as a sure place-winner in their profession and a possible winner of a Nobel Prize. Professor Pauling was 30 last February. At Oregon State Agricultural College where he won his B.S. degree at 21 (no early age) he was a promising, gangling youth always browsing in the chemistry and physics laboratories. Three years later he was a California Institute of Technology Ph.D., no easy distinction under the strict driving of Professor Arthur Amos Noyes, director of Caltech's Gates Chemical Laboratory. Director Noyes...
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