Also, Pauling made him promise to let him know the minute he heard from me.
Delbruk wanted to tell everyone in his lab and knew that within hours the gossip would travel from his lab in biology to their friends working under Linus. I was still slightly afraid something would go wrong and did not want Pauling to think about hydrogen-bonded base pairs until we had a few more days to digest our position. At the bottom of the letter that broke the news of the complementary chains, I had asked that he not tell Linus. Linus Pauling first heard about the double helix from Max Delbruk. In this passage, Watson describes how he learned that Pauling had heard the news: While sympathetic to Watson and Crick's desire to keep the discovery secret until all results could be confirmed, Delbruk's allegiance ultimately was to science itself. The story here centers on Max Delbruk, a mutual friend who traveled between Cambridge and Cal Tech. Watson describes with obvious unease the way in which Pauling came to know that Watson and Crick had solved the mystery, and created a model of DNA's helical structure. The quest for the secret of DNA became a fierce competition between, among others, Watson and Crick's lab in Cambridge, and Pauling's lab at Cal Tech. He recounts not just the brilliance and insight, but the politics, the competition, and the luck. Watson's book is a remarkably frank account of the way science is actually done. The actual discovery was made Francis Crick and James Watson, and is famously chronicled in Watson's book The Double Helix. We find a cautionary tale for the Open Source community in the story of Pauling's foundational work that made possible the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Pauling was the rarest of men: a scientist who won the Nobel Prize not once, but twice. Linux creator Linus Torvalds reports that the name "Linus" was chosen for him because of his parents' admiration for Nobel laureate Linus Pauling. Introduction Introduction Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, and Mark Stone
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