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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linus Carl Pauling is among a select few luminaries ... determined the large-scale structures of many proteins, the “alpha-helix”. He also worked, though unsuccessfully, on the structure ...

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 ...

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 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 ...