Letter from Linus Pauling to Fred Allen. September 26, 1957. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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• Letter from Clinton Hunt, RE: Summary of Nobel Prizes awarded between 1901 and 1957. Hunt believes that world peace is a vast and complicated problem that has been with humanity since its inception. Hunt feels that the physical and mental inertia of mankind has discouraged leadership in working towards a goal of world peace. [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Wo-Yo), Box #4.017, Folder #17.6]
• Letter from Dr. Francis Crick to LP. [Letter from LP to Crick September 13, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: Nucleic Acid Papers, 1951-1963: Box #9.001, Folder #1.45]

  UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

  24th September, 1957

  Prof. L. Pauling,

  Dept. of Chemistry,

  California Institute of Technology,

  Pasadena 4,

  Calif., U.S.A.

  Dear Professor Pauling,

  I'm very sorry about this Scientific American article. It shouldn't have happened, though it wasn't entirely my fault.

  As to the three bonds, I had your reprint on my desk when you were here in July. I didn't mention it to you because I was completely in agreement with your conclusions. It seems a good general rule that a C = O or an NH will almost always make a hydrogen bond, either to another molecule or to water. If it is not making a bond and if there is no room for a water molecule something is likely to be wrong. We have been using this idea in our collagen models.

  I was not responsible for producing the figures for the Scientific American article, nor for the legends to the figures. They were sent here for my approval only two days before they went to press. I was very annoyed at this, especially with the clumsy stereochemistry. I did cable a few alterations to the legends, but it seemed too difficult to get the figures altered satisfactorily by cable. In my haste I quite overlooked the offending legend.

  The next time I have to write about DNA I will include a reference to your paper, and mention the error in the Scientific American article.

  Things are quite hectic here. Americans seem to join the unit every day. John has a very nice three-dimensional Fourier of myoglobin (out to 6 A) which is very encouraging.

  With best wishes,

  Yours sincerely,

  Francis Crick

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