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Lifestory: Linus Pauling - 1997
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Author: Maurice Wilkins
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He wrote to me at one stage in, I think the beginning of 1952, saying could we send him some x-ray diffraction photographs
of DNA. I replied and said no thank you very much for asking or something that, uh, we need more time, we wanted to spend
more time looking at them ourselves. I don't feel ashamed of saying we'd like more time if you don't mind, but what I do know
is that, if he had come over in 1952 and visited our lab to look at those in x-ray diffraction, I'm sure I couldn't have resisted
showing him every damn thing we had because it was this sort of god-like presence, you know, one feels such an honor to be
able to show those things.
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