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PAULING LINUS: (1901-1994) American Chemist & Biochemist, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, 1954 and

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PAULING LINUS: (1901-1994) American Chemist & Biochemist, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, 1954 and

`Einstein ranks with Newton and Faraday as one of

the greatest scientists who have ever lived´.

 

 

PAULING LINUS: (1901-1994) American Chemist & Biochemist, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, 1954 and Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1962. An unusual and very interesting autograph manuscript signed Linus Pauling, one page, folio, n.p., 17th December 1953, to Henri Corbiere. Pauling responds beneath his correspondent´s three questions relating to Albert Einstein, stating `In my opinion Albert Einstein is the greatest scientist in the world. - My work has been influenced only indirectly by Einstein´s contributions; but the major part of it, dealing with the application of quantum mechanics to chemical problems, is of course based upon Einstein´s early discoveries´ And in response to his correspondent´s third question “What kind of a place does he occupy in the history of world science?”, Pauling answers `Einstein ranks with Newton and Faraday as one of the greatest scientists who have ever lived´. The present text was written by Pauling the year before being awarded with the Nobel Prize, and during Einstein´s life time. Very small overall minor age wear, otherwise VG