PAULING, LINUS

Born in 1901, he is one of the greatest chemists of all time. Linus Pauling is the only person ever to have won 2 (unshared) Nobel Laureates in 1954 and 1962, and was the youngest person ever to be voted onto the National Academy of Sciences. In 1973, he founded the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, an independent non-profit research and educational organization devoted to study what he termed for the first time- orthomolecular medicine. He heavily researched and lectured about mega-doses of vitamin C to prevent and assist a number of ills, from the common cold to cancer, as well as promote longevity. He died in 1994 leaving 4-children.