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).
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 Clip ID: hager2.006.6-mirsky
