Interview with Linus Pauling. October 14, 1992. Interview by Thomas Hager for use in "Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling,"
(Simon & Schuster, 1995).
Linus Pauling: Well I don't think it bothered Bragg, Kendrew and Perutz. They just accepted it.
And they published their paper – this was several months or a year after I had discovered
the alpha helix. I had been careful not to talk to the people in Britain about it
because I was troubled that it didn't fit the 5.1 angstroms distance. They published
- Bragg, Kendrew, and Perutz published a paper describing something like nineteen
helical structures, all wrong. But I thought "Well, we better not delay any longer
in publishing the alpha helix and the gamma helix." So we went ahead and published.
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Creator: Thomas Hager, Linus Pauling Associated: W.L. Bragg, John Kendrew, Max Perutz Clip ID: hager2.006.6-publishing
