Linus Pauling: Warren Weaver said, “The Rockefeller Foundation isn't really interested in the sulfide
minerals. What we are interested in is biology." So that sank in for a while. I remembered
those beautiful red crystals of hemoglobin and in fact I'd written a paper on the
[?] equilibrium constant of hemoglobin with oxygen - a theoretical paper. That was
my first, my beginning in the protein field. So I had an idea and I applied for a
grant to study the magnetic properties of hemoglobin. This was eighty-seven years,
I think, after the last work had been done. Faraday wrote in his diary, “Have measured
the magnetic susceptibility of old, dried blood. Must try recent, fluid blood." So
we got the grant.
