Gerald Ford and Linus Pauling Signed Photograph.

FORD, Gerald and Linus Pauling.

Item Number: 123794

Rare black and white photograph of the 38th president of the United States, Gerald Ford awarding Nobel Prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling the National Medal of Science. Signed by both Ford and Pauling. In fine condition.

On September 18, 1975 President Gerald Ford awarded American biochemist and peace activist Linus Pauling the National Medal of Science, an award considered long in the coming by his scientific peers. Widely considered one of the greatest scientists of all time and one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology, Pauling is one of four individuals to have won more than one Nobel Prize (the others being Marie Curie, John Bardeen and Frederick Sanger). Of these, he is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes, and one of two people to be awarded Nobel Prizes in different fields. For his scientific work, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. For his peace activism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962.