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'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 ...

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 ...

In 1948, Linus Pauling discovered that many proteins take the shape of an alpha helix, spiraled like a spring coil. In 1950, biochemist Erwin Chargaff found that the arrangement of nitrogen bases ...