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Outtakes from NOVA special - 1976-77

Working on DNA [2 of 3]
Author: Linus Pauling
Length: 0:44


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...here is another one, the polypeptide chain twisted into this helical form. This is the double helix discovered by Watson and Crick. Professor Corey and I were interested in it at the time. I've even expressed the feeling that I thought sometime I would find the structure of nucleic acid but thinking back on it, I decided that I wasn't working hard enough at the job. That's as good an excuse as I can think of, that I wasn't working hard enough.



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