Pauling is one of only four individuals to have won multiple Nobel Prizes.[3] He is one of only two people awarded two Nobel Prizes in different fields (the Chemistry and Peace prizes), the other beingMarie Curie (the Chemistry and Physics prizes), and the only person awarded two unshared prizes.[4]
By the fall of 1916, Pauling was a 15-year-old high school senior with enough credits to enter Oregon State University(OSU), known then as Oregon Agricultural College.[20] He did not have enough credits for two required American history courses that would satisfy the requirements for earning a high school diploma. He asked the school principal if he could take these courses concurrently during the spring semester, but the principal denied his request, and Pauling decided to leave the school in June without a diploma.[21] His high school, Washington High School in Portland, awarded him the diploma 45 years later, after he had won two Nobel Prizes.
