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 was born in Portland on Feb ... 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 stands ...

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 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 ...

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 ...