The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954

Linus Carl Pauling

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 was awarded to Linus Carl Pauling "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances"

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