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Which physicistâs institute did Linus Pauling attend in Munich?
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Linus Pauling
Theoretical physical chemist Linus Pauling, photograph by Yousuf Karsh.
Linus Pauling attended the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Munich, which was led by the physicist Arnold Sommerfeld. Pauling spent the majority of his 18-month Guggenheim Fellowship at this institute to study quantum mechanics.1