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Letter from James Watson to Linus Pauling. March 4, 1963.
Watson writes to explain the background behind his and Crick's earlier assumption of the existence of two hydrogen bonds linking cytosine and guanine in the DNA molecule. Watson then confirms that he and Crick have accepted the Pauling-Corey description of three hydrogen bonds interlinking cytosine and guanine. Transcript.

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Date: March 4, 1963
Genre: correspondence
ID: sci9.001.51-watson-lp-19630304
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