This guy is Linus Pauling, one of the most important chemists of all time, the US suspected that he was a commie because he was a pacifist.
This guy is Linus Pauling, one of the most important chemists of all time, the US suspected that he was a commie because he was a pacifist.
He also opposed the Korean and Vietnam wars, opposed american interventionism in Latinoamerica and was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the USSR.
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He was also batshit insane.
He believed in Vitamin C cures for everything from cancer to the common cold.
People are still dying to this day by forgoing chemo- and radiation therapy and just injecting themselves with vitamins.
I don't understand how he managed to make actual, fundamentally important biochemistry discoveries if he was such a crank.