| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry | 
| Year: | 1948 | 
| Number: | 47 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Linus Carl  Pauling | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1901 | 
| Year, Death: | 1994 | 
| Profession: | prof | 
| University: | California Institute of Technology | 
| City: | Pasadena | 
| State: | CA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 | 
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1962 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Paul  Rabe | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1869 | 
| City: | Hamburg | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Robert Burns B Woodward | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1917 | 
| Year, Death: | 1979 | 
| Profession: | prof | 
| University: | Harvard University | 
| City: | Cambridge | 
| State: | MA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1965 | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | László  Zechmeister | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1889 | 
| Year, Death: | 1972 | 
| Profession: | chairholder at invited university | 
| City: | Pasadena | 
| State: | CA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Comments: | First choice: L. Pauling.
Second choice: P. Rabe and R.B. Woodward. | 
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