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Interview with Linus Pauling.
 
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).

Close Contact with Alfred Mirsky. (1:08)

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Linus Pauling: But I was in close contact with Alfred Mirsky. I had picked his name out of the literature. Anson and Mirsky were the principle workers on hemoglobin, it seemed to me, on denaturation. And when I was at the Rockefeller Institute I talked with Mirsky. I said, "I'm going to go and talk with Dr. Flexner." Well he said, "You can't do that. Nobody can talk with [him], you have to arrange an appointment." I just went up to his office and told the secretary I wanted to see him. Told him that I'd like to have Mirsky come to Pasadena for a year or two, and he said, "Okay." I asked that they would pay his salary and lend him out. So even after he came back to New York, I continued to be in close contact with Alfred.

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Creator: Thomas Hager, Linus Pauling
Associated: Alfred E. Mirsky, Simon Flexner, Mortimer L. Anson
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Creator: Thomas Hager, Linus Pauling

Date: October 14, 1992
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