Linus Pauling was born in Portland on Feb. 28 ... One of his foremost accomplishments was helping to create a model of the alpha helix, a key structure in proteins. (A red alpha helix statue ...

Linus Pauling was born Feb. 28, 1901, in Portland. His childhood home at 3945 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd. is marked by a red sculpture of a protein alpha helix, in honor of Pauling’s protein structure ...

FLATOW: Yeah. Let's talk about Linus Pauling. This is an amazing story, also, the blunder that he made. His model of the alpha helix and his model of the DNA molecule were wrong. What went wrong ...

is now the Linus Pauling Center for Science, Peace and Health. In front of the office building is a sculpture of an alpha helix, a form of chemical bond he discovered in 1951. , and a project was ...

There have been only five scientists who have won two Nobel Prizes – Polish-French physicist and chemist Marie Curie (1903, 1911), American scientist Linus Pauling (1954, 1962), American ...

Linus Pauling's prediction of the α-helix, one of the greatest achievements in structural biology, was made by assuming (i) that the peptide bond is planar, (ii) that all amino acid residues are ...

Linus Pauling is considered one of the greatest scientists and humanitarians of the 20th century and is the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel Prizes - for chemistry in 1954 and ...

Linus Pauling's lifelong fascination with ... many scientists were racing to discover the structure of DNA. Pauling proposed a triple helix structure with the bases on the outside, but James ...

“We knew what to do: imitate Linus Pauling and beat him at his own game,” Watson wrote in his 1968 bestseller, The Double Helix. The place to which Pauling – and soon Watson and Crick ...