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 * Linus Pauling died at his Big Sur ranch Saturday.
 * He died at age 93.
 * He founded the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in 1973. The institute moved to Palo Alto in 1980.
 * He had been in frail health for several months.
 * He is survived by a sister; four children, including Crellin Pauling of Portola Valley; 15 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.
 * He received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Oregon Agricultural College in 1922 and a doctorate in chemistry and mathematical physics from Cal Tech in 1925.
 * He was best known for his advocacy of the use of vitamin C as a preventive measure to ward off diseases such as cancer.
 * He won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962.
 * Henry Taube, a Stanford professor emeritus of chemistry and also a Nobel winner, said Pauling was the most influential chemist of the century.
 * His interests and knowledge ranged from medicine to nuclear physics.
 * His Nobel Peace Prize was for his crusade against nuclear weapons tests.
 * His Nobel Prize for chemistry was for work into the nature of the chemical bond and the understanding of the structure of complex substances.
 * His wife, Ava Miller Pauling, died in 1981 after 58 years of marriage.
 * In a 1993 interview, Pauling described his scientific inquisitiveness: "I think one characteristic I have always had is that I knew whether I knew something or did not, whether I understood something or did not understand it. And I wasn't always happy if I didn't understand something."
 * In addition to teaching at Stanford, Pauling was a faculty member earlier at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, San Diego, and taught at the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara.
 * Memorial services will be held in the near future at Stanford Memorial Church.
 * Pauling had long maintained that extra doses of vitamins, including vitamin C, can extend the normal life expectancy by 25 years.
 * Pauling was a native of Portland, Ore.
 * Pauling was a professor emeritus of chemistry at Stanford University.