Personal Life
While teaching a class called "Chemistry for Home Economic Majors" at college, Pauling met his future wife, Ava Helen Miller and they married June 17, 1923. The marriage lasted until Ava Pauling's death in 1981, and produced three sons (Linus Jr., Peter and Edward Crellin) and a daughter (Linda). Pauling's sons went on to become scientists and researchers (Linus, a psychiatrist; Peter, who died in 2003, a crystallographer; and Edward Crellin, who died in 1997, a biologist; Linda married a geologist).
Pauling was raised as a member of the Lutheran Church, but later joined the Unitarian Universalist Church and publicly declared his atheism two years before his death.
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