From jmeehan@cc.utas.edu.au Sun Aug 21 19:39:55 1994 Received: from corinna.its.utas.edu.au for jmeehan@cc.utas.edu.au by www.ccl.net (8.6.9/930601.1506) id SAA10043; Sun, 21 Aug 1994 18:46:54 -0400 Received: from tasman.cc.utas.edu.au by corinna.its.utas.edu.au with SMTP id AA04116 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 22 Aug 1994 08:45:07 +1000 Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 08:40:03 +1000 (EST) From: John Meehan Subject: Re: CCL:Linus Pauling To: Peter Shenkin Cc: Pieter Stouten , chemistry@ccl.net, stoutepf@gatekeeper.es.dupont.com In-Reply-To: <9408211720.ZM812@still3.chem.columbia.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII G'day everyone > > At the age of 93, Linus Pauling, a brilliant chemist and the only man to > > win two Nobel prizes in different categories, passed away on his estate > > in California..... > > He had a few dead ends, too. For example, his theory of the immune > system (that antibodies were "plastic", and could conform to an antigen > and keep that conformation, thus keeping a history of past exposure) > turned out to be completely wrong. And the jury is still out on the > question whether taking massive doses of vitamin C does anybody any good. > But most would agree that Pauling was the greatest chemist of the > 20th century -- at least so far. (We still have 6 years, after all.... :-) ) Pretty much so....it's a petty though that for all that he achieved, in the popular media he will forever be known for his feelings on Vit. C. Be the idea right or wrong its unfortunate that his greatest work will probably go unnoticed by most because of this. Be prepared for a re-awakening of the Vit. C story I guess :-) Cheers John ---------------------------------------------- John Meehan O CH2-COOH Department of Biochemistry " / University of Tasmania, HO-P-O-C-COOH Australia | \ HO CH2-COOH PHOSPHOCITRIC ACID ---- A powerful, natural inhibitor of Pathological Biomineralization ----------------------------------------------