Linus Pauling's lifelong fascination with chemistry ... developed an accurate oxygen meter for submarines, helped create synthetic plasma, and determined the structure of proteins.

This vital theoretical concept in chemistry, first introduced by American chemist Linus Pauling in 1932 as ‘the power of an atom in a molecule ... It is relative to hydrogen which was assigned a value ...

"He was, in my judgment at least, the greatest and most original scientist--especially in chemistry--in the 20th century," says Norman Davidson, a professor, emeritus, of biology and chemistry at the ...