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William T. Astbury

Correspondence

• Letter from Linus Pauling to Warren Weaver. July 29, 1936.
• Letter from William T. Astbury to Linus Pauling. February 17, 1937.
• Letter from Linus Pauling to William T. Astbury. March 4, 1937.
• Letter from William T. Astbury to Linus Pauling. March 19, 1937.
• Letter from Linus Pauling to Alfred E. Mirsky. May 25, 1937.
• Memorandum from Linus Pauling to Robert Corey. July 24, 1951.
• Letter from Eddie Hughes to Linus Pauling. May 2, 1952.
• Letter from Eddie Hughes to Linus Pauling. May 8, 1952.

Pictures and Illustrations

• Portrait of William T. Astbury. 1950s.
• Group photo of participants in the Pasadena Conference on the Structure of Proteins. September 1953.

Published Papers and Official Documents

• "On the structure of native, denatured, and coagulated proteins." July 1936.
• The structure of proteins: Two hydrogen-bonded helical configurations of the polypeptide chain. April - May 1951.
• "The structure of synthetic polypeptides." April - May 1951.
• "The structure of feather rachis keratin." April - May 1951.
• "The structure of hair, muscle, and related proteins." April - May 1951.
• "The structure of fibrous proteins of the collagen-gelatin group." April - May 1951.
• Untitled Caltech press release re: protein research by Pauling and Corey. September 4, 1951.

Manuscript Notes and Typescripts

• "The Structure of Proteins." 1936.
• "On the Structure of Antibodies and Other Proteins." 1937.
• "The Structure of Proteins: Two Hydrogen-Bonded Helical Configurations of the Polypeptide Chain." February 28, 1951.
• "The Pleated Sheet, A New Layer Configuration of Polypeptide Chains." March 1951.
• "The Structure of Fibrous Proteins of the Collagen-Gelatin Group." March 1951.
• "The Collagen Structure" March 3 - 24, 1951.
• "The Structure of the Silk Fibroin" July 7, 1951 - April 4, 1952.
• "Polyglycine" July 15, 1951 - November 30, 1952.
• "Rudall's Photograph of Fibrin" July 21, 1951 - January 14, 1952.
• Pauling Diary: "France and England 1952 / Also Toronto." 1952.
• "The Department of State and the Structure of Proteins." June 1952.
• "Compound Helixes" September 19 - October 15, 1952.
• "The 4.5 residue Helix" September 27 - October 3, 1952.
• "Linus Pauling Notebook. Solvay Congress 1953" April 1953.
• Pauling Diary: "Trips to Germany, Sweden, and Denmark, July and August 1953" July - November 1953.
• "Third Report on Collagen." January 19, 1954.
• "The Molecular Structure of Hair and Similar Fibrous Proteins." July 1954.
• "Astbury - Tropomyosin Actin" August 12, 1956.
• "Molecular Structure of Proteins." January 18, 1967.
• "Molecular Complementariness and Biological Specificity" and "The Structure of Proteins." February 26 - 28, 1968.
• "Robert Brainard Corey." May 5, 1971.
• "The Molecular Basis of Biological Specificity." March 5, 1974.
• "The Discovery of the Alpha Helix." September 1982.
• "The Discovery of the Pleated-Sheet Structures of Proteins." April 7, 1983.
• "How My Interest in Proteins Developed." January 12, 1993.

Quotes

Audio Clips

• Interview with John T. Edsall. November 1, 1991.
  1. The Impact of a 'Dangerous Character.' (2:23)