This is a citation of an outside article. Gravyday is not responsible for its content. Original URL below. How a Nobel Prize winner spread the vitamin C myth Linus Pauling was a genius. He also spread a pervasive myth that's lasted for decades. Linus Pauling won two Nobel Prizes, helped uncover the nature of chemical bonds, identified sickle cell anemia as a molecular disease, elucidated some of the most common protein structures, revolutionized our understanding of primate evolution, and is widely hailed as one of the fathers—if not the father—of molecular biology.(more)
