NEUROTREE

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The closest Nobel to me is Prof. Linus Pauling, the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes, one for Chemistry (1954) and one for Peace (1962). Prof. Pauling is considered one of the founders of molecular biology. He was also an elemental figure in developing the initial structure of DNA, and his research inspired the likes of Prof. Francis Crick, Prof. James Watson, Prof. Rosalind Franklin, and Prof. Maurice Wilkins to decode the structure of DNA. Further, Prof. Pauling worked with Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger and Nobel Laureate Neils Bohr and master teacher Prof. Arnold Sommerfeld. One of Prof. Pauling's supervisors and one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, Prof. Erwin Schrödinger, took up the position of chair of the Physics department at the University of Allahabad (Alma Mater). This happened after Prof. Meghnad Saha left for Calcutta University. However, Prof. Schrödinger couldn’t join the department due to the onset of World War 2.

One noteworthy detail concerning Prof. Arnold, the other supervisor of Prof. Pauling, is that he was the eternal candidate for the Nobel Prize, having received around 84 nominations. The majority of Professor Arnold's students went on to win Nobel Prizes; two of his most well-known pupils were Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (the exclusion principle) and Werner Heisenberg (the uncertainty principle).