Question

Linus Pauling won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1954 and for ______ in 1962.
1. Physics
2. Literature
3. Peace
4. Medicine

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Peace

The correct answer is Peace

• Linus Pauling has been awarded Nobel Prize two undivided Nobel Prizes.
  • ​In 1954 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • Eight years later in 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to weapons of mass destruction.
• 1954 Prize: In 1951 he published the structure of the alpha helix, which is an important basic component of many proteins.
• 1962 Prize:  The atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a turning point in Linus Pauling's life.
  • Together with other scientists he spoke and wrote against the nuclear arms race, and he was a driving force in the Pugwash movement.

• About Nobel Prize: Nobel Prize five in number until 1969, when a sixth was added.
• The proposed by the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel.
  • From Stockholm:
  1. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences confers the prizes for physics, chemistry, and economics.
  2. The Karolinska Institute confers the prize for physiology or medicine, and
  3. The Swedish Academy confers the prize for literature.
  • The Norwegian Nobel Committee based in Oslo confers the prize for peace.