The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
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... Linus Pauling was not sub- ject to the confines of British fair play . Sooner or later Linus , who had just turned fifty , was bound to try for the most important of all scientific prizes . There was no doubt that he was interested ...
... Linus Pauling was not sub- ject to the confines of British fair play . Sooner or later Linus , who had just turned fifty , was bound to try for the most important of all scientific prizes . There was no doubt that he was interested ...
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... Linus Pauling had partly solved the structure of proteins . The news hit me in Geneva , where I had stopped for ... Linus had made the announcement . Pauling's talk was made with his usual dramatic flair . The words came out as if he had ...
... Linus Pauling had partly solved the structure of proteins . The news hit me in Geneva , where I had stopped for ... Linus had made the announcement . Pauling's talk was made with his usual dramatic flair . The words came out as if he had ...
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... Linus Pauling had discovered the a - helix . I soon was taught that Pauling's accomplishment was a product of common sense , not the result of complicated mathematical reasoning . Equations occa- sionally crept into his argument , but ...
... Linus Pauling had discovered the a - helix . I soon was taught that Pauling's accomplishment was a product of common sense , not the result of complicated mathematical reasoning . Equations occa- sionally crept into his argument , but ...
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