It is now ~50 years since the discovery of the atomic structure of the α-helix by Linus Pauling. Like the other great helical structure in biology, the double helix of B-DNA, it was ultimately ...

Linus Pauling was born in Portland on Feb. 28, 1901. He went on to win two Nobel prizes and is considered one of the greatest chemists of the 20th century. Nobel Laureate Dr. Linus Pauling in New ...

The self-taught chemist. Linus Pauling's lifelong fascination with chemistry was ignited during childhood by a friend's chemistry set. He was born on February 28, 1901, in Portland, Oregon, to a ...

Every year, the Oregon-born scientist and humanitarian is honored on his birthday at his alma mater, Oregon State University. Pauling, considered the father of molecular biology, is best ...

In the late nineteenth century, a German biochemist found the nucleic acids, long-chain polymers of nucleotides, were made up of sugar, phosphoric acid, and several nitrogen-containing bases.