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How did Thomas Hunt Morgan influence Linus Paulingās interest in biology?
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Linus Pauling
Theoretical physical chemist Linus Pauling, photograph by Yousuf Karsh.
The arrival of the geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the late 1920s served as the catalyst for Linus Paulingās interest in biological molecules.1
Following this influence, Pauling began to apply his expertise in structural chemistry to the study of biology, leading to significant research on the protein hemoglobin by the mid-1930s.1