what subjects did he study during his university days?
He registered for two courses in chemistry, two in mathematics, mechanical drawing, introduction to mining and use of explosives, modern English prose, gymnastics and military drill.
Linus Pauling
In his first semester, Pauling registered for two courses in chemistry, two in mathematics, mechanical drawing, introduction to mining and use of explosives, modern English prose, gymnastics and military drill. 
who popularized the idea of evolution in the mid 1800s Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. which ancient civilizations helped to shape this thought process? The ancient Greeks, Romans, Chinese, and in medieval Islamic science. what was proposed for this thought process from the first civilization mentioned above? They proposed that one type of animal, even humans, could descend from other types of animals. what was proposed for this thought process from the second civilization mentioned? They described the development of the cosmos, the Earth, living things, and human society through purely naturalistic mechanisms, without any reference to supernatural involvement. and what was proposed by the third civilization about this subject? According to Joseph Needham, Taoism explicitly denies the fixity of biological species and Taoist philosophers speculated that species had developed differing attributes in response to differing environments. what evolutionary ideas were contributed in the field of paleontology? One instance being that of James Hutton describing gradual geological processes operating continuously over deep time. can you name some famous intellects who contributed to the field of molecular biology in the 1940s -1960? Yes, Linus Pauling and Emile Zuckerkandl. can you tell me something about the first person mentioned above? He was an  American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator.
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Linus Pauling [SEP] Higher education
In his first semester, Pauling registered for two courses in chemistry, two in mathematics, mechanical drawing, introduction to mining and use of explosives, modern English prose, gymnastics and military drill. He was active in campus life and founded the school's chapter of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. After his second year, he planned to take a job in Portland to help support his mother. The college offered him a position teaching quantitative analysis, a course he had just finished taking himself. He worked forty hours a week in the laboratory and classroom and earned $100 a month (), enabling him to continue his studies.