Pauling Field, a small airfield located in Condon, Oregon, where Pauling spent his youth. There is a psychedelic rock band in Houston, Texas, named The Linus Pauling Quartet. The asteroid 4674 Pauling in the inner asteroid belt, discovered by Eleanor F. Helin, was named after Linus Pauling in 1991, on his 90th birthday. Linus Torvalds, developer of the Linux kernel, is named after Pauling. Nobel laureate Peter Agre has said that Linus Pauling inspired him. In 2010, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory named its distinguished postdoctoral program in his honor, as the Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Honors and awards Pauling received numerous awards and honors during his career, including the following: 1931 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry 1931 Irving Langmuir Award, American Chemical Society. 1940 Alpha Chi Sigma, professional chemistry fraternity. 1941 Nichols Medal, New York Section, American Chemical Society. 1946 Willard Gibbs Award, Chicago section of the American Chemical Society. 1947 Davy Medal, Royal Society. 1947 T. W. Richards Medal, Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society. 1948 Presidential Medal for Merit by President Harry S. Truman of the United States. 1948 Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London (ForMemRS) 1951 Gilbert N. Lewis medal, California section of the American Chemical Society. 1952 Pasteur Medal, Biochemical Society of France. 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 1955 Addis Medal, National Nephrosis Foundation. 1955 John Phillips Memorial Award, American College of Physicians. 1956 Avogadro Medal, Italian Academy of Science. 1957 Paul Sabatier Medal. 1957 Pierre Fermat Medal in Mathematics (awarded for only the sixth time in three centuries). 1957 International Grotius Medal. 1959 Messenger Lectureship 1960 Fellow, Royal Society of Arts 1961 Humanist of the Year, American Humanist Association. 1961 Gandhi Peace Award by Promoting Enduring Peace. 1962 Nobel Peace Prize. 1965 Medal, Academy of the Rumanian People's Republic. 1966 Linus Pauling Award. 1966 Silver Medal, Institute of France. 1966 Supreme Peace Sponsor, World Fellowship of Religion. 1967 Washington A. Roebling Medal, Mineralogical Society of America. 1972 Lenin Peace Prize. 1974 National Medal of Science by President Gerald R. Ford of the United States. 1978 Lomonosov Gold Medal, Presidium of the Academy of the USSR. 1979 Gold Medal Honoree, National Institute of Social Sciences. 1979 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences. 1979 Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement 1981 John K. Lattimer Award, American Urological Association. 1984 Priestley Medal, American Chemical Society. 1984 Award