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Linus Pauling
Theoretical physical chemist Linus Pauling, photograph by Yousuf Karsh.
In 1958, Linus Pauling and his wife presented an appeal to the United Nations to ban the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. This document was signed by 9,235 scientists from 44 countries.1