Consider the following statements:

Linus Pauling has been awarded the Noble prize in Chemistry for his work in nuclear testing.

Linus Pauling has won the Noble prize for peace in 1962.

John Bardeen won the Nobel prize twice in Physics.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Question

Linus Pauling (1954, 1962), the US chemist who posited that huge doses of vitamin C can ward off the common cold, is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes – the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize. Pauling won his first Nobel in 1954 for his work in molecular chemistry, particularly in the field of proteins and antibodies. His second award came eight years later in 1962 in recognition of his campaigning against nuclear testing.
John Bardeen (1956, 1972), in 1956, he and two colleagues at Bell Labs, William Shockley and Walter Brattain, won for inventing the transistor, which revolutionised the field of electronics by leading to smaller and cheaper radios, calculators and computers, amongst other objects. In 1972, he picked up his second Nobel for developing the BSC-theory of superconductivity, with fellow American physicists Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer.

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Linus Pauling (1954, 1962), the US chemist who posited that huge doses of vitamin C can ward off the common cold, is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes – the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize. Pauling won his first Nobel in 1954 for his work in molecular chemistry, particularly in the field of proteins and antibodies. His second award came eight years later in 1962 in recognition of his campaigning against nuclear testing.
John Bardeen (1956, 1972), in 1956, he and two colleagues at Bell Labs, William Shockley and Walter Brattain, won for inventing the transistor, which revolutionised the field of electronics by leading to smaller and cheaper radios, calculators and computers, amongst other objects. In 1972, he picked up his second Nobel for developing the BSC-theory of superconductivity, with fellow American physicists Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer.

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