Linus Pauling Born: Only Double Unshared Nobel Laureate
Linus Pauling was subpoenaed by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1960 for his anti-nuclear activities, the same year he delivered a petition signed by 11,021 scientists to the United Nations calling for a nuclear test ban. He published No More War! in 1958. The Partial Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1963. He won the Nobel Peace Prize that year — his second Nobel Prize. The same government that had monitored him for a decade watched him accept it.
February 28, 1901
125 years ago
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