Normally, I would agree that PIs receive too much credit off the backs of their subordinates, but Pauling's writings were really a cut above for the time. He le

Normally, I would agree that PIs receive too much credit off the backs of their subordinates, but Pauling's writings were really a cut above for the time. He legitimately seemed like a brilliant scientist or made foundational contributions to chemistry. I am failing to find the accounting of how he reportedly deduced the chemical nature of sickle cell anemia, but it is something else. That he chased vitamin C does not make me think any less of him. Plenty of science is wrong and goes nowhere after significant effort.