Ocupation: Physicist
Life: May 10, 1901 - September 15, 1971
Birthday: May 10
Death: September 15
Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them.
topic: Freedom, Distance, Thinking, Distance Apart