Daily LIFT #280
Updated: Sep 12
Linus Pauling celebrates Lenin's Centennial, San Francisco, 1970 -- Daily LIFT #280
Dr. Linus Pauling was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in April 1970. Pauling had previously won the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, making him the first (and only) person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes and one of two people to be awarded Nobel Prizes in different fields, the other being Marie Curie.