Letter from Linus Pauling to John I. Nurnberger. October 21, 1955

Pauling advises Nurnberger to not reproduce figures from the paper that Pauling and Corey published on the structure for nucleic acids, as their proposed structure was wrong. Immediately after Pauling and Corey’s paper appeared, Watson and Crick proposed another structure, which everyone accepted to be correct.  View Transcript

Letter from Linus Pauling to John I. Nurnberger. Page 1. October 21, 1955
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Associated: Robert Corey, James D. Watson, Francis Crick

ID: corr287.22-lp-nurnberger-19551021

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