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by mihaic 1148 days ago
My favorite anecdote with Chargaff is how he first told Linus Pauling about how the ratio between the nucleotide pairs A-T and C-G is constant on a sea voyage. Pauling thought he was unpleasant and ignored him. It turns out you need to sometimes be sociable to stay in the history books.
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Who wasn't sociable? This just sounds like a clash of personalities, not a lack of sociality.