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Linus Pauling's lifelong fascination with chemistry was ignited during childhood by a friend's chemistry set. He was born on February 28, 1901, in Portland, Oregon, to a family that lacked the ...
LINUS Pauling died on 19 August at his home in California at the age of 93. He was widely regarded as the greatest chemist of the twentieth century - such was the depth of his intuitive ...
Linus Pauling's prediction of the α-helix, one of the greatest achievements in structural biology, was made by assuming (i) that the peptide bond is planar, (ii) that all amino acid residues are ...
Linus Pauling, who was celebrated in Gautam R. Desiraju's Millennium Essay (Nature 408, 407; 2000), was born on 28 February 1901.As the hundredth anniversary of his birth approaches, I would like ...
Linus Pauling's The Nature of the Chemical Bond has, like Isaac Newton's Principia or Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, the kind of iconic status that, for some, removes any obligation to ...
In fact, Watson and Crick were worried that they would be "scooped" by Pauling, who proposed a different model for the three-dimensional structure of DNA just months before they did. In the end ...
Pauling and colleagues published their results in a paper entitled "Sickle cell anemia: a molecular disease", as it was the first demonstration of "a change produced in a protein molecule by an ...
In the fall of 1957, Linus Pauling paid an impromptu visit to Bryn Mawr College to hear my colleague Frank Mallory, a new faculty member and CalTech alumnus, speak 1.Pauling sat in the front row ...
In his 1932 paper 5, Pauling points to a 1920 paper from Latimer and Rodebush as ‘the discovery of the hydrogen bond’ 6. However, understanding that paper requires a bit of background reading ...
By Prof. Linus Pauling. (The George Fisher Baker Non-resident Lectureship in Chemistry at Cornell University.) ... the book could be persuaded to read Prof. Pauling's other book, and his original ...