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Lifestory: Linus Pauling - 1997
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Author: Max Perutz
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...chemistry as an undergraduate in Vienna, and chemistry then was something that had to be memorized. Well I didn't regard
chemistry as anything that could be understood. Now at Christmas 1939 a girlfriend gave me a book token, and with that I bought
Linus Pauling's Nature of the Chemical Bond and it was a revelation to me, as if for the first time I realized that chemistry could be understood in terms of structure.
So this book made a tremendous impact on me and I'm sure on generations of students, and it really revolutionized the teaching
of chemistry.
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