Linus Pauling - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

Pauling received numerous awards and honors during his career, including the following:

• 1931 Irving Langmuir Award, American Chemical Society
• 1941 Nichols Medal, New York Section, American Chemical Society
• 1947 Davy Medal, Royal Society
• 1948 Medal for Merit from the United States President
• 1952 Pasteur Medal, Biochemical Society of France
• 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1955 Addis Medal, National Nephrosis Foundation
• 1955 Phillips Memorial Award, American College of Physicians
• 1956 Avogadro Medal, Italian Academy of Science
• 1957 Paul Sabatier Medal
• 1957 Pierre Fermat Medal in Mathematics (awarded for only the sixth time in 3 centuries)
• 1957 International Grotius Medal
• 1961 Humanist of the Year, American Humanist Association
• 1962 Nobel Peace Prize
• 1965 Medal, Academy of the Rumanian People's Republic
• 1966 Linus Pauling Award
• 1966 Silver Medal, Institute of France
• 1966 Supreme Peace Sponsor, World Fellowship of Religion
• 1968 Lenin Peace Prize
• 1974 United States National Medal of Science
• 1977 Lomonosov Gold Medal, USSR Academy of Science
• 1979 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences
• 1984 Priestley Medal, American Chemical Society
• 1984 Award for Chemistry, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation
• 1987 Award in Chemical Education, American Chemical Society
• 1989 Vannevar Bush Award, National Science Board
• 1990 Richard C. Tolman Medal, American Chemical Society Southern California Section
• 2008 "American Scientists" U.S. postage stamp series, $0.41, for his sickle cell disease work