Re: Francis Crick
From: Charlie Chambers (cchamber@gorge.net)
Fri Jul 30 11:34:52 2004
Funny thing about Pauling, despite his impressive work on protein
structure, he's probably best remembered at least to the lay public for
the whole vitamin c idea.
no apology necessary, art.
On Jul 30, 2004, at 9:21 AM, art fougner, md wrote:
> sorry i never meant to imply they derived their work FROM Pauling ...
> in
> fact, they were overjoyed to learn Pauling was barking up the wrong
> tree.
>
> art
>
> At Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Charlie Chambers wrote:
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>> My recollection of the events were that they certainly paid attention
>> to Pauling's work, but Pauling was way off. He was looking at
>> structures that were most analogous to protein structures that he had
>> previously revealed.
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>> Charlie Chambers
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>> "I'm a goin fishin.
>> Yeah, I'm goin fishin
>> And my baby's goin fishin too!"
>> Taj Mahal
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>> On Jul 30, 2004, at 6:20 AM, art fougner, md wrote:
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>>> didn't they also spy on Linus Pauling?
>>>
>>> art
>>>
>>> At Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M.
>>> F.R.S.C.
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> At Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Richard Chudacoff, MD wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> ..
>>>>>
>>>>> It has just been reported that he has died.
>>>>
>>>> I once read a wonderfull account of how Watson and Crick went about
>>>> trying to formulate the double helix structure of DND, it was by no
>>>> means methodoical and serendepity played a role.
>>>>
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>>>> Take care, John
>>>>
>>> --
>>> art fougner, md
>>> ich bin ein New Yorker
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>> "I'm a goin fishin.
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>> Yeah, I'm goin fishin
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>> And my baby's goin fishin too!"
>>
>> Taj Mahal
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> --
> art fougner, md
> ich bin ein New Yorker
>
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Charlie Chambers
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Hood River, OR USA
cchamber@alumni.rice.edu
"...not because I regard fishing as being so terribly
important but because I suspect that so many of the other
concerns of men are equally unimportant-and not nearly
so much fun."
John Voelker
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