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Linus Pauling, a renowned chemist and Nobel laureate, is the namesake of Frances Arnold's professorship. Arnold, a pioneering biochemist, was appointed to the Linus Pauling Professorship of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology. This honor recognizes Arnold's groundbreaking work in directed evolution, a technique that mimics natural selection to engineer proteins with enhanced functions.