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Herman Henry William Pauling, Linus Pauling's father, c. 1900 Linus Carl Pauling was born on February 28, 1901, in Portland, Oregon , [ 13 ] [ 14 ] the firstborn child of Herman Henry William Pauling (1876–1910) and Lucy Isabelle "Belle" Darling (1881–1926).
The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.
Gisela was a refugee from Germany (she was a Protestant whose own father had been born Jewish). [27] He died on 6 February 2002 and his ashes were interred with his parents Hugo Perutz and Dely Perutz in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge. [28] Gisela died on 17 December 2005 and her ashes were interred in the same grave.
Ahmed Hassan Zewail (February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian-American chemist, [4] known as the "father of femtochemistry". [5] He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian and Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, [4] and also first African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Ava Helen Miller was the tenth of twelve children of George and Elnora Gard Miller. She was raised on a 160-acre (0.65 km 2) farm outside Beavercreek, Oregon. [1] Her father was a school teacher, and her mother [2] expressed socialist ideals and encouraged liberal thinking and discussion in the home. [1]
On August 28, 1963, in front of a crowd of nearly 250,000 people spread across the National Mall in Washington, DC, my father, the Baptist preacher and civil rights leader Reverend Dr. Martin ...
Lipscomb credits perusing the large medical texts in his physician father's library and the influence of Linus Pauling years later to his undertaking biochemical studies in his later years. Had Lipscomb become a physician like his father, he would have been the fourth physician in a row along the Lipscomb male line.
David Lynch has died at the age of 78, his family announced on Thursday, Jan. 16. "It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would ...