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Correspondence
| LP to Max Delbrück. April 20, 1953. |
LP to Max Delbrück - Page 01
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Author: Linus Pauling
LP to Max Delbrück - Page 01
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Linus Pauling's correspondence to Max Delbrück [1 of 2]
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Linus Pauling's correspondence to Max Delbrück, April 20, 1953 |
| Creator: |
Pauling, Linus, 1901- |
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1953-04-20 |
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Pauling, Linus, 1901- -- Correspondence
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en |
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delbruck01-pg01.jpg |
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Master file format: TIFF, 600 dpi, Epson GT-10000+ flatbed scanner. |
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http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/copyright.html |
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Dear Max: I have received your letter, to Harry Weaver, this morning, immediately phoned him. He had not senior letter yet,
but after I told him what you had said, and what my own opinion was, he said that he would bring Watson over for the virus
symposium. He suggested that they might save money by having Watson stay here through the summer, instead of returning to
England. I pointed out to that the work that Watson is doing in collaboration with Crick is very important, and they might
well be important enough to justify sending him back to Cambridge, even for the period of two months. I judge today he agreed
to do that, if necessary. I was very deeply impressed by the Watson-Crick structure. I do not know whether you know what
about Cory and me off on the wrong track. The x-ray photographs that we had, which had been made by Dr. Rich, and which are
essentially identical with those obtained some years ago by Ashbury and Bell, are really the superposition of two patterns,
due to 2 different modifications of sodium thymonucleates. This had been discovered a year or more ago by the King's college
people, but they had not announced it, and I did not know that this was so. Cory and I had tried to find the structure that
accounted for one of the principal features of one pattern, and simultaneously for one of the principal features of the second
pattern. Watson and Crick saw the x-ray photographs made in King's college a couple of months ago, when they attended a seminar
dinner, and they immediately began work on the problem. The King's College people had already derived one conclusion from
the photographs, as to the nature of the helical structure. Watson and Crick amplified this by the idea of complementariness
between purine and pyrimidine residues, and formatted
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