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"Linus Pauling, Crusading Scientist." 1977. Produced for NOVA by Robert Richter/WGBH-Boston. A Short Summary of Pauling's Involvement with DNA. (1:20)

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Linus Pauling: Well, I was interested in DNA. I was still working on proteins in the 1940's but I thought it would be nice to determine the structure of DNA and I was working on the problems at the same time Watson and Crick were and I thought in the course of time I would find...I would determine the structure but I got skinned out of it by Watson and Crick...got beaten by Watson and Crick.

I wasn't working very hard at it as I had some other problems going too and I was handicapped, of course, by not having access to the experimental information that they had - the x-ray photographs. I tried to get hold of the x-ray photographs that Rosalind Franklin had made and I couldn't get them. I wrote trying to get them but didn't succeed in getting them, whereas Watson and Crick had them and were able to analyze them.

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Date: 1977
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ID: 1977v.66
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