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Linus Pauling
Theoretical physical chemist Linus Pauling, photograph by Yousuf Karsh.
Linus Pauling published his classic treatise, The Nature of the Chemical Bond, in 1939. The full title of the work is The Nature of the Chemical Bond, and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals.12