"Perhaps you will be interested, in a few years, to consider the possibility of spending your sabbatical year in Pasadena. I hope that our work will be in just as interesting a period after a few years as it is now. In particular, the problem of the structure of the nucleic acids may just be developing into a stage of rapid progress; right now not very much is being done, from the x-ray standpoint."
Linus Pauling. Letter from Linus Pauling to Charles M. Apt. April 9, 1952.

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