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How was Linus Pauling involved with the structure of the atomic nucleus?
Linus Pauling published his Close-Packed Spheron Model of the atomic nucleus in two well respected journals, Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Were Linus Pauling's chemical bonds publications received well?
Linus Pauling's textbook The Nature of the Chemical Bond has been considered chemistry's most influential book of this century and has been cited more than 16,000 times.

Question: How did Pauling die?
Self-contained rewrite: How did Linus Pauling die?