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Correspondence
LP to Henry Allen Moe. December 19, 1952 Author: Linus Pauling
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Linus Pauling's correspondence to Henry Moe |
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Pauling, Linus, 1901- |
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1952-12-19 |
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Nucleic acids
Todd, Alexander
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en |
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moe01-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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Thanks for sending me the clipping from the New York Times on the syntheis of the coenzymes by Todd. Todd's work is of the
greatest importance. I think that his earlier work on the synthesis of nucleosides and nucleotides is probably to be considered
as more important than just the synthesis of the coenzymes. This recent synthesis is a continuation of the earlier work -
an application of new synthetic methods that Todd discovered. You no doubt remember that we had Todd over here, in the spring
of 1938, and that we offered him a professorship. He would have accepted it, I think, except that the British got busy and
arranged for a professorship at Manchester to be given to him. I believe that Todd is to be considered the leading organic
chemist in Great Britain now, except for Sir Robert Robinson. I talked with Todd about his work a good bit this summer; we
stayed with the Todds in Cambridge. In particular, I discussed the significance of his results with respect to the structure
of nucleic acids. Principally as a result of this meeting with him, I have now discovered, I believe, that structure of the
nucleic acids themselves. Biologists probably consider that the problem of the structure of nucleic acid is fully as important
as the structure of proteins. I think that Dr. Corey and I will probably send in a note on the discovery of the structure
of nucleic acids next month; we want to check up on our present structure a bit more before announcing it.
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