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"Lifestory: Linus Pauling."
 
"Lifestory: Linus Pauling." 1997.
Produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

A Brilliant Lecturer. (0:37)

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Maurice Wilkins: We all, a number of us, from, from the lab here, we all went down there to hear Pauling's lecture 'cause we heard he was a brilliant lecturer and he certainly lived up to our expectations. It was brilliant and it had a sort of a human element and theatrical element of getting things across effectively. It was alive, you know, and I was quite inspired by it. He was more sort of God-like, superhero, great figure, sort of like a presidential person. He's being compared with Sakharov there...

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Creator: Maurice Wilkins
Associated: Linus Pauling, Andrei Sakharov
Clip ID: 1997v.1-lecture

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Creator: British Broadcasting Corporation
Associated: Linus Pauling, Ava Helen Pauling, Jon Tunney, Jack Dunitz, Peter Pauling, Max Perutz, Maurice Wilkins

Date: 1997
Genre: sound
ID: 1997v.1
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