- Profession
- Chemist, Biophysicist, Biochemist, Professor
- Worked at
- Caltech, Stanford, University of California, San Diego, Linus Pauling Institute
- Studied at
- Caltech, Oregon State University
- Studied under
- Roscoe G. Dickinson, Richard Chace Tolman
- Prizes
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1954), National Medal of Science (1974), Guggenheim Fellowship (1926), Davy Medal (1947), Lomonosov Gold Medal (1977), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1948), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1931), Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics (1931), William H. Nichols Medal (1941), Willard Gibbs Award (1946), Silliman Memorial Lectures (1947), Liversidge Award (1948), Humanist of the Year (1961), Nobel Peace Prize (1962), Gandhi Peace Award (1962), Linus Pauling Award (1966), Roebling Medal (1967), Lenin Peace Prize (1969), NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (1979), Priestley Medal (1984), Lavoisier Medal (1986), George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education (1987), Tolman Award (1990), Chemical Pioneer Award
The only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes.
