Linus Pauling was born on 28 February 1901 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He was previously married to Ava Helen Miller. He died on 19 August 1994 in Big Sur, California, USA.
I like people. I like animals, too - whales and quail, dinosaurs and
dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the
pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human
race, is deteriorating. [From his 1959 paper on the effect of
radioactive fallout on heredity]
