Chemist David Shoemaker delivered these remarks at the conference, "The Life and Work of Linus Pauling (1901-1994): A Discourse on the Art of Biography." In them, Shoemaker recounts his memories of working as a graduate student under Pauling and in collaboration with Ken Hedberg and Bill Lipscomb. Notably, Shoemaker shares a story of visiting the Paulings in England in 1948 and witnessing work that would ultimately result in the determination of the alpha-helix structure of proteins. Shoemaker also discusses Pauling's numerous contributions to the discipline of crystallography, including his controversial later work on quasicrystals.
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