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"I felt that I knew enough about the structure of polypeptide chains to be able to determine the structure of alpha-keratin by analyzing Astbury's diffraction photographs and similar ones made in our own x-ray laboratory, and I spent a good part of the summer of 1937 in this effort."
Linus Pauling. "How My Interest in Proteins Developed." January 12, 1993.

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