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Outtakes from NOVA special - 1976-77
Working on DNA [1 of 3]
Author: Linus Pauling
Length: 1:20
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Transcript:
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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