"The Impact of Linus Pauling on Molecular Biology." February 28, 1995. Talk delivered at the Pauling Symposium, Oregon State University.
The Importance of Weak Forces. (0:42)
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Francis Crick: That was really, I think, Linus' main contribution. The
chemists after all traditionally were much more concerned with the strong bonds.
The homopolar
bonds and the [...] bonds and things of that sort. And only later on did they
become interested in the Van der Waals forces, in particular the hydrogen bonds, and
those are the ones which fit together in a physical sense one way or another with
different degrees, of course, of specificity as many of you know. And so, Pauling
believed really that that was going to be the key to everything, the way that things
fitted together using these weak forces.
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