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While not feeding the hip and hungry or hosting the likes of Cut Chemist, who stopped in before his recent Boston performance, Strack can be found either with his wife and children or playing basketball at his old stomping grounds, the MAC. “I don’t have a valid Harvard ID anymore, but I just give them my library card instead,” Strack says with a mischievous grin...
...they also might have been wrong, as they had been a year and a half earlier, when the two rookies had made some dumb mistakes. Even Linus Pauling, the world's greatest chemist, had blown his own "solution" to DNA a couple of months before. So while their double-helix model seemed to make biochemical sense and agreed with what was already known, a wiser man might have toned down his rhetoric...
...likeliest someone, both men believed, was Linus Pauling. To a later generation, Pauling would be best known as an antiwar activist and the slightly batty advocate of vitamin C as the antidote to colds and cancer. But at mid-century he was the world's premier physical chemist, the man who had literally written the book on chemical bonds. A few months before Watson arrived, in fact, Pauling embarrassed the Cavendish by winning the race to figure out the structure of keratin, the protein that makes up hair and fingernails. (It was a long, complex corkscrew of atoms known...
...course DNA was an acid. Pauling, the world's greatest chemist, had made a mistake in basic chemistry--an unimaginable blooper. Watson and Crick retired to the Eagle to drink a toast to Pauling's failure. They were more nervous than ever, though. The paper was scheduled to be published in March; once it was out, someone would notice the error, and Pauling would work that much harder to vindicate himself. They had at most six weeks to figure...
...Today, there?s a questionable sense of modesty when Watson explains how he and Crick, a dropout physicist, managed to beat the world-renowned chemist Linus Pauling to the double helix. Watson said that it was really a simple problem: ?If it were complicated, I wouldn?t have gotten it.? He refused to retract his somewhat churlish portrait of his rival, the British crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, in his gossipy book The Double Helix, saying that she blew her chances of cracking the puzzle by refusing to cooperate with her savvy King?s College co-worker Maurice Wilkins, who ultimately shared...