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Linus Pauling
Theoretical physical chemist Linus Pauling, photograph by Yousuf Karsh.
In his paper on orthomolecular psychiatry, Linus Pauling proposed that mental health could be achieved and maintained by manipulating the concentrations of substances that are normally present in the human body.1