The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
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... 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 in most ...
... 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 in most ...
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... Pauling himself . Thus if the crux of the problem was to deduce an unusually clever arrange- ment of inorganic ions and phosphate groups , we were clearly at a disadvantage . By midday it became imper- ative to locate a copy of Pauling's ...
... Pauling himself . Thus if the crux of the problem was to deduce an unusually clever arrange- ment of inorganic ions and phosphate groups , we were clearly at a disadvantage . By midday it became imper- ative to locate a copy of Pauling's ...
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... Pauling's . But in Delbrück's world no chemical thought matched the power of a genetic cross . Later that evening , when the geneticist Boris Ephrussi brought up my love affair with Cambridge , Delbrück threw up his hands in disgust ...
... Pauling's . But in Delbrück's world no chemical thought matched the power of a genetic cross . Later that evening , when the geneticist Boris Ephrussi brought up my love affair with Cambridge , Delbrück threw up his hands in disgust ...
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